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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