Group Litigation Orders
Group Litigation Order
Ref No: 53
Name of Group Litigation Order: Corby Group Litigation
Date of Order: 14/02/06
Judge: Akenhead J
Court: Technology & Construction Court
Managing Court: Royal Courts of Justice
Lead Solicitors:
Collins Solicitors,
20 Station Road,
Watford,
Hertfordshire.
WD17 1AR
DX 51516 Watford 2
Defining Issues:
LAW:
To determine whether in the management and execution of land reclamation contracts which involved toxic waste which included heavy metals, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, and dioxins in Corby, Northamptonshire between about 1985 and 1999, the Defendant (Corby Borough Council) owed a duty to the Claimants to take reasonable care to prevent the airbourne exposure of the Claimants' mothers to such toxic waste durnig the embryonic stage of pregnancy.
FACT:
(i) In the event that any such duty was owed, whether the Defendant was in breach of that duty and, if so, in respect of which contracts, which sources of airbourne contamination, which contaminants, at which times and which geographical areas relevant to those Claimants on the Register such airbournce contamination extended to.
(ii) Whether any such breach had the ability to cause upper and or lower limb defects to the Claimants of the type complained of.
(iii) Whether any alleged loss arising out of such breach was forseeable.