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Relatives campaign for disaster compensation law

Title
Relatives campaign for disaster compensation law
Genre
News report; Interview
TX Date
17 Oct 1989
Year of production
1989
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Duration
00:03:22
Description
Grieving disaster relatives are joining forces in a campaign for changes in the law, to improve compensation claims for those who lost loved ones in incidents such as Lockerbie and Zeebrugge. They are also demanding automatic legal aid and proper representation by lawyers at inquests and public enquiries into such disasters. Report includes interviews with Shirley Cooklin, who lost her son Ben when the ship Marques sank off Bermuda; Margaret de Rohan, who lost a daughter and son-in-law in the Zeebrugge disaster. Oni Bhattacharya reports.
Contributors
Oni Bhattacharya; Shirley Cooklin; Margaret De Rohan
Keywords
Deaths; Campaigns; Compensation; Public inquiries; Law reform; Disasters (events); Legal aid

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