The idea of the new Brownfields law was this: To encourage redevelopment of the 450, 000 brownfield sites that would otherwise lie fallow, the government needed to provide liability protection to developers who took certainreasonable steps before and after buying a property.
Given that medical professionals and regulators act on the basis of evidence of causation that is not statistically significant, it stands to reason that in certain cases reasonable investors would as well.
Coroner Andrew Tweddle, told the jury they should consider returning an open verdict if they were not certain beyond reasonable doubt that she intended to kill herself, and had not hoped she would be saved.
