Coleman - v - Dunlop Ltd

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Claimant Coleman
Job title TBA (SOC 2000: 8132)
Task description Working on a conveyor belt, tacking strips of carbon. Assembling carbon brakes for motor cars. Tightening nuts (jigging up)
Injury Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
Defendant(s) Dunlop Ltd (SIC 2007: C22.1)
Court(s) Reading County
Case No.
Date 14 Mar 2001
Judge(s) His Honour Judge Playford QC
For Claimant
All Claimants Coleman
Solicitor Blakemores
Counsel Mr R Francis QC
Mr T Carlisle
Non-Medical expert(s) Mr M Zalewski (Ergonomics)
(Called in trial in Birmingham CC in September 1996)
Medical expert(s) Prof V Wright (Rheumatology)
(Called in trial in Birmingham CC in September 1996)
Prof H A Bird (Rheumatology)
(Called in trial in Reading CC in March 2001)
For Defendant
Solicitor Halliwell Landau (M2 2JF)
Counsel Mr T Horlock QC
Mr A Howard
Non-Medical expert(s) Mr Wilkinson (Engineering)
(Called in trial in Birmingham CC in September 1996)
Mr Terry R Mason (Engineering)
(Called in Birmingham CC in January 1999)
Medical expert(s) Mr Michael A Waldram (Orthopaedic & Hand Surgery)
(Called in trial in Birmingham CC in September 1996)
Dr Andrei Calin (Rheumatology)
(Called in trial in Reading CC in March 2001)
Outcome
Judgment for: ?Plaintiff
Injury found: ?
Work related: ?
Breach of Statutory Duty: No finding
Defendant negligent: Deemed proven
Damages
General:
Special:
Other:
TOTAL: £ 2,750.00
Observations
  "The Claimant does not satisfy me that he is suffering from RSD or any of its variants. In my judgement is more likely that all the symtoms were due to inflammatory arthritis of the right wrist and that the pain and disability has been due solely to this condition. It has not been caused or materially contributed to by his work with Dunlop. I, therfore, assess damages on the basis of an 18-24 months worth of symptoms whilst working. I award £2,750 damages."

HH Judge Playford QC
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