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Correspondence with Members of Parliament, in alphabetical order by surname. With a listing of MPs (dated 2002) at the front of the file.

Covers a wide range of topics including

• Parliamentary Questions (PQs) relating to occupational and environmental health & safety, DHSS/DSS policies, DHSS/DSS procedures, DHSS/DSS leaflets and DHSS/DSS shortcomings
• Dr Kevin Browne's dual role as Cape Asbestos consultant and medical officer at DHSS medical boarding center for respiratory diseases
• constituents who happen to be also be SPAID/OEDA clients

Microfiches of company registration documents.

Also photocopies of the following:

• successive versions of Memorandum and Articles of Association, Cape Asbestos Company Ltd / Cape Industries Ltd
• Memorandum and Articles of Association, Cape Industries Overseas Ltd
• particulars of Directors and Secretaries, notifications of changes
• certificates of incorporation
• diverse company registration papers 1975-1980
• Register of Mortgages and Charges, etc. Company Search Report 1996

Correspondence and papers (chiefly papers) relating to the Cape Asbestos Fund. Includes successive proposals 'for a scheme of arrangement in respect of asbestos liabilities’.

• correspondence and papers re Rita Ann Ashdown, mesothelioma victim, who had lived in a Council flat on the Harts Lane Estate in Barking, the former site of a Cape Asbestos factory. Includes particulars of claim Rita Ann Ashdown v. London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, 2002; press coverage 2001-2003
• correspondence and papers re Barbara Ann Mead, d. 2002 of mesothelioma: transcript of coroners proceedings
• correspondence and papers re Barking, 1993-2001, including telephone memoranda, solicitors’ correspondence and press coverage
• copy of a report by Dr Kevin Browne, 25 January 1995, on a recent claim brought against Cape by a Barking resident
• correspondence with Peter Brady, Dublin, 1986, on his own case against Cape, including photocopy of minutes of a meeting of directors of Cape Insulation (Ireland) Ltd, 1977
• SPAID correspondence re Barking 1983-1986
• articles on SPAID‘s work 1984-1985, typescript of case notes Homerton University Hospital, Hackney, from Nancy Tait’s presentation (with Dr V J Harvey), ‘Mesothelioma patients referred to Hackney Hospital – a preliminary report’, Anglo-French Social Medicine conference, Winchester, 1983
• reports (1983) on safety arrangements at Cape Asbestos, Barking, and copies of related records 1956-1968, received through Anthony T Mendelle via litigator Richard Meeran. Including photocopies of Cape Asbestos Barking Factory Annual Report 1961 & 1962, also report on a visit to Cape subsidiary plants in the USA (n.d.). Mendelle was products manager (1956-1960) and production manager (1960-1968) at Cape Asbestos Company Ltd, Barking

Correspondence and papers re and arising from Granada Television's World in Action (WIA) documentary ‘A small town tragedy’ (1982), investigating the refusal of British company Cape Industries Ltd to pay compensation awarded against them in an American court of law to workers of their North American subsidiary company in Bloomington, Illinois. The transmission of ‘A small town tragedy’ brought Flynn in contact with a number of American tort lawyers.

Includes (in reverse chronological order):

• correspondences with American lawyers, among them Hayden S Dent, and Steven Loble of Oppenheimers, London, 1983-1996
• transcripts of cross-examinations of Anthony John Penna & W R Bernays (14 + 15 March 1988), in Jimmy Wayne Adams et al. v. Cape Industries & Capasco Ltd, High Court of Justice, London
• draft article by Flynn on Cape Industries having found a new and formidable opponent in the US government
• responses to WIA programme 'A small town tragedy' (transmitted 5 July 1982): Granada Television internal notes and memoranda re the legality of the programme, press reaction to the programme, Cape complaint to the Independent Broadcasting Authority
• production documents (Flynn's research notebook, script of the documentary, interview transcripts)

Also includes Flynn's pitch for a programme (or an article on the history of company awareness of the dangers posed by asbestos), c.1981, and correspondence with Charles Patrick and Ron Motley, 1981, both tort lawyers in South Carolina who sued a subsidiary of international asbestos giant Turner & Newall.

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 with James Walker including copies of:

• opinion of Justice McMorrow (filed 21 October 1999), in Delores McLure v. Owens Corning Fiberglass Corporation, Illinois Supreme Court
• Dr Schepers' response to Dr Case "regarding personal motives, state of the art, and Canadian workers comp[ensation] system", January 1999
• opinion of the court (filed 11 August 1998), in Delores McLure v. Owens Corning Fiberglass Corporation, Fourth District, Illinois
• opinion of the court (filed 29 May 1998), in Marge Cameron v. Owens Corning Fiberglass Corporation et al., Appellate Court, Illinois
• opinion of the court (filed 23 November 1994), in Samuel Thomas Adcock v. Brakegate Ltd et al., presumably McLean County, Illinois
• opinion of the court (filed 31 March 1988), in Clarence Craig and Duveen A Craig v. Lakes Asbestos of Quebec Ltd et al. v. Charter Consolidated plc et al., US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, reversing district court view that Charter Consolidated plc was liable under New Jersey law for the tort obligations of its subsidiary Cape Industries plc on an alter ego or piercing the corporate veil theory
• court's findings (12 September 1983), in Elmer Allen et al. v. PPG Industries Inc. et al., District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, following non-appearance of the defendants Cape Industries plc, Capasco Ltd and Egnep Ltd
• opinion of the court (filed 1 July 1983), in Anthony A Barber v. Pittsburgh Corning Corporation et al., appeal of Charter Consolidated Ltd et al., Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Flynn's aide memoir re Charter deposition, 15 April 1983
• North American press coverage c.1965 to 1984, inc. copies of ‘Asbestos Litigation Reporter’ 1981 and photocopies of correspondence relating to asbestos industry and/or disease

Some components announced in the inscription (Selikoff 1977 interview, Steve McQueen notes, IHP notes to J Todd) not found. Components 'Brodeur' and 'LF 1982/US notes' transferred to FLYNN/2/1.

• press coverage 2003-2005 including 'Bloomington woman awarded $5 million in wrongful death asbestos suit', 2005
• Flynn's notes on NAAC/Cape, sample of NAAC corporate seal.

Remaining content exactly duplicated material listed at GB 249 FLYNN/2/2/8 and has therefore been removed.

Correspondence and papers on asbestos in South Africa, including compensation claims against Cape plc by South African workers. Includes:

• photographs of demonstration
• press cuttings
• Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) leaflets and newsletters

• 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

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

Correspondence and papers relating to Nancy Tait's campaign to question Dr Kevin Browne's suitability as Medical Officer of the Department of Health and Social Security, whilst serving at the same time as medical consultant for Cape Industries. In reverse chronological order. In Tait's own words (20 September 1994), she had "waged war on Kevin Browne's appointment since 1987". Includes:

• correspondence (in particular with MP Frank Dobson), press statements, newspaper articles, Parliamentary Questions, 1986-1988
• correspondence with Kevin Browne 1983

Further,

• Tait’s notes on chrysotile c.2003, listing of SPAID/OEDA lung cancer cases
• copy of Browne’s presentation ‘Differences in asbestos fibre types’, presented at the International Conference on Chrysotile Asbestos Cement Products, New Delhi, 10-11 November 2003
• correspondence re K Browne 1987-1995, including re his deposition in Chase Manhattan Bank v. T&N plc et al., United States District Court, Southern District of New York [1994]; see link below
• copy of Cape Industry advertisement for a Group Medical Advisor, in British Medical Journal, October 1977
• copies of scientific publications relating to asbestos induced diseases 1977-1994

Communications and documentation obtained chiefly through contacts with American litigators whose clients included victims of asbestos-related disease. First among these litigators was James Walker of Walker & Wylder, Bloomington, Illinois, whose correspondence and document exchange with Flynn started c.1982.

Cape's North American subsidiaries included:

• North American Asbestos Corporation (NAAC)
• Union Asbestos & Rubber Company (Unarco)
• PPG Industries Inc.

Correspondence with Anthony Coombs of John Pickering & Partners LLP, in reverse chronological order. Covers current cases, T&N bankruptcy, Anthony Mendelle as witness on Cape Asbestos in Barking, pleural plaques, OEDA finances. Also includes

• copy of reasons for judgement in Frederick Price v. Powergen plc (1998)
• draft of John Pickering & Partners brochure on asbestos compensation in the UK (1997), written specifically for Australian audiences
• John Pickering & Partners brochures on compensation for personal injury, 1996

For subsequent correspondence with Coombs, see link below.