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• press clippings 1977-1983
• photocopies of North American Asbestos Corporation (NAAC) correspondence and papers 1953-1983, including solicitors correspondence
• (marked) copy of memorandum by Richard K Decker, November 1962, advising on legal interpretation of the relationship between Cape and its subsidiary NAAC viz. whether US courts would be inclined to think they have jurisdiction of Cape, (a) because Cape's effect on US trade could be shown to be direct and substantial, and (b) because the NAAC as Cape's agent plays an active part in Cape's business which "is continuous and could not be easily carried out without NAAC"

Originally contained a (duplicate) copy of the deposition of William S Haines (June 1980), in Charlotte Hammond v. Cape Industries & NAAC, etc. See FLYNN/2/3/4

A key focus of Flynn’s asbestos-related investigations were the activities of Cape Industries Ltd, registered in December 1893 as Cape Asbestos Company Ltd (name changed in 1974). The series listed here includes early registration documents, Cape Industries annual reports from 1974, as well as a run of the companies' house journal ‘CAC Magazine’, 1951-1963. For further business papers of Cape Industries, see also FLYNN 2/2.

Annotated copies (photocopies and/or originals) of Cape Industries / Cape plc annual reports and accounts 1974-2000, incomplete set (1984, 1997 and 1999 missing).

1976-1986: includes also reviews.

There also is an original Charter Consolidated annual report 1981.

Photocopies of 'Cape Asbestos Company Magazine' (the house journal of Cape Asbestos Company Ltd), December 1951 to Autumn 1963.

Contains occasional post-it markers by either Flynn or Tweedale.

Set of industry brochures from Cape Boards and Panels Ltd and Cape Universal Claddings Ltd.

Correspondence and news coverage following the out of court settlement in the South African group action brought against Cape plc (formerly Cape Asbestos Company Ltd, from 1974 Cape Industries Ltd) in December 2001, after a 5 year battle. Also earlier notes, correspondence and research materials on the South African asbestos industry. Includes:

• correspondence with ITV re a film project 'You will know us by the trail of death' (originally outlined in 1988 under the title 'Outrageous misconduct - asbestos as metaphor'; see FLYNN/2/1/3)
• set of microfiches of Charter Consolidated company papers, filmed 1978
• Flynn's handwritten notes on his background research c.1980-1982, including on the suppression of the research of the Johannesburg Pneumoconiosis Research Unit
• correspondence between Richard Creasey (BBC, formerly World in Action) and Anthony Mendelle (employee at Cape Asbestos Company Ltd, Barking 1956-1968) following the BBC documentary 'The right to know', April 1974, re producing a WIA documentary about Cape Asbestos in South Africa. See also Mendelle deposition (1984) at FLYNN/1/2/6. Creasey had conducted the investigation for WIA documentary 'The dust at Acre Mill' (transmitted in June 1971), the first programme to bring the lethal dangers of asbestos to the attention of the general public, on the example of the Acre Mill asbestos factory at Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire.

Correspondence chiefly with personal injury lawyer Richard Meeran of Leigh Day & Co solicitors, 1994-2001. Relates to case Afrika et al. v. Cape plc and its argument that a parent company owes a direct duty of care in tort to anybody injured by a subsidiary company in a group. Includes:

• press coverage 2004-2005
• joint asbestos initiative paper of the International Miners Organisation, African Miners Federation, National Union of Mineworkers, and Leigh Day & Co solicitors
• copy of opinions of the Lords of Appeal for Judgement in the cause of Schalk Willem Burger Lubbe et al. v. Cape plc (2000)
• copy of judgement Rachel Jacoba Lubbe & Ors v. Cape plc (1999)
• Flynn's notes on a meeting on foreign plaintiffs and access to English courts in transnational litigation, British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Solicitors' Human Rights Group, November 1999
• copy of judgement Moses Fano Sithole et al. v. Thor Chemical Holdings Ltd et al. (1998)
• copy of draft judgement Rachel Jacoba Lubbe & Ors v. Cape plc (1998)
• copy of judgement Rachel Jacoba Lubbe et al. v. Cape plc (1997)
• copy of opinions of the Lords of Appeal for Judgement in the cause of Connelly v. RTZ Corporation plc et al. (1997)
• copy of affidavit John Carol Anthony Davies in Rachel Jacoba Lubbe et al. v. Cape plc (1997)
• copy of affidavit Richard Meeran in Rachel Jacoba Lubbe et al. v. Cape plc (1997)
• copy of consolidated statement of claim, Busisiwe Ngcobo et al. v. Thor Chemicals Holdings Ltd et al. (1995)
• copy of judgement Edward Connelly v. RTZ Corporation plc (1996)

• set of court papers in the matter of Charlotte Hammond v. Circuit Court of Cook Country et al. (1981), Supreme Court of the State of Illinois; & Charlotte Hammond v. Cape Industries Limited & NAAC (1981), Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, County of McLean, Illinois
• photocopies of medical death certificates issued in Illinois 1978-1981
• photocopies c.1979 of papers from James Bennett's claim against the Union Asbestos & Rubber Company (Unarco) of Chicago, 1940
• photocopies of correspondence between Unarco and its insurers over occupational disease, 1952-1958
• short publication on asbestos heir Tommy Manville, 1940

• Cape/subsidiaries correspondence 1964-1972. Source uncertain (no exhibit marks, no covering correspondence)
• instructions from J L Sparks, Group Financial Controller Cape Industries Limited, to Financial Directors/Company Secretaries – all subsidiaries, 1974-1978

• copy of affidavit of J L Sparkes, consultant to Cape plc and formerly the Company Secretary of Cape plc
• copy of Kevin Browne's discussion of [ ], notably re the grounds for the allegation that Cape should be held responsible for Mr [ ]'s mesothelioma

Papers, press clippings, and photographs relating to asbestos in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
Includes:
-brief notes relating to asbestos cases in Barking
-some handwritten research notes about topics such as asbestos found in Barking and waste disposal procedures
-correspondence about Barking cases of asbestos and the Cape factory
-a lot of notes and correspondence about a case of asbestos contaminated soil in Whiting Avenue, 1978
-papers relating to Barking Community Health Council
-correspondence (chiefly with Margaret Sharkey) and telephone memoranda
-press clippings

• deposition of Joan Holtze (12 April 1979 ), in Geraldine Ellenburg v. NAAC et al., Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, County of McLean, Illinois
• deposition William S Haines (8 May 1980), in Charlotte Hammond vs Cape Industries & NAAC; and Delora Stewart v. EGNEP et al., Circuit Court of McLean County, Illinois, General Division
• deposition of Max E Meyer (24 March 1981), in Anthony A Barber et al. v. Pittsburgh Corning et al., Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Joan Holtze was the secretary and assistant treasurer at the North American Asbestos Corporation.
William S Haines was a former chairman of Safety & Claims Services Inc., which did work for Union Asbestos & Rubber Company.
Max E Meyer was a lawyer employed by Lord, Bissell & Brook, who represented Cape Asbestos.

Correspondence and papers, chiefly re a visit of H C Lewinsohn (Chief Medical Officer, TBA Industrial Products Ltd) to India, November 1975.

Includes

• memoranda on T&N occupational health and safety policy
• instructions to T&N companies overseas to take up dust sampling and medical examinations, etc., 1972 onwards
• photocopies of index cards relating to information about overseas companies
• a little material 1965-1967 relating to the Asbestos Research Council Subcommittee on Health Precautions in the Insulation Contracting Industry, whose membership was recruited from the asbestos industry (mainly Cape Asbestos and T&N)