Ex-serviceman to sue for compensation
- Title
- Ex-serviceman to sue for compensation
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- Jul 1987
- Year of production
- 1987
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- Duration
- 00:04:50
- Description
- Ken McGinley of the British Nuclear Test Veterans Association on his delight that the Court of Appeal will allow Melvyn Pearce to pursue a claim against the government for contracting blood cancer. And on the likelihood of other servicemen exposed to radioactivity during nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s, or their families, to sue for compensation. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Ken McGinley
- Keywords
- Armed forces; Compensation; Courts; Nuclear weapons; Legal decisions; Nuclear weapons testing; Veterans; Melvyn Pearce; British Nuclear Test Veterans Association
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