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Copies of judgements, legal opinions, advice on liability, occasionally dependancy schedules, affidavits, particulars of claim (including clinical information), skeleton arguments in preparation of a case, witness statements, transcripts of proceedings and press coverage. In alphabetical order.

• front matter includes list of settlements (asbestos related, asthma, Berylium related) as well as summaries of selected judgements 1961-1984
• occasional notes suggest that SPAID/OEDA supplied copies of judgements for a fee

Correspondence with and re Justice for Asbestos Victims (JAV) Northern Ireland and the BBC Northern Ireland, 2003-2006. Also earlier historic documentation on asbestos in Belfast.

• photocopy of (1982) ‘Dust in the London underground: a report by London Transport’
• photocopy of (March-April 1978) ‘International environment & safety: asbestos monitoring’
• photocopy of A Jackson and D F Croome (1962) ‘Rails through the clay: a history of London’s tube railways’

Correspondence with Paul Cooper of Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU) York. Includes an autopsy report and other medical information. Among topics covered are issues with York pathologists and coroners, and concerns over exposure to asbestos of British Rail passengers. Also a little correspondence re foundation of the York Asbestos Support Group in 2006. Papers include testimony by former British Rail coach builders and asbestos sprayers, and photocopies of confidential J W Roberts Ltd communications re fibre levels produced by the 'Limpet' asbestos cement spray process, 1962.

Paul Cooper long campaigned on behalf of former carriageworks employees who suffered from asbestos-related illnesses. He retired as secretary of the TGWU York branch c. 2010.

Documentation on asbestos on the London Underground.

12 series:

• Early campaigning
• Correspondence with MPS
• Legal Working Party
• Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC)
• Health & Safety Executive (HSE)
• Coroners and medical boards
• Compensation recovery
• All Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health Asbestos Sub-committee
• Asbestos ban campaign
• Section 10 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947
• Ministry of Defence (MOD) Joint Compensation Review
• Consultative panel: pathology of asbestos disease

Correspondence and papers re campaign to improve compensation (in particular concerning asbestos injury) for ex-servicemen and their dependents. The reference is to Section 10 of the Crown Proceedings Act (exclusion from liability in tort in cases involving the Armed Forces). Includes

• excerpts from Hansards, correspondence with MPs
• correspondence with solicitors
• extensive material re conference 'to discuss compensation for ex-service personnel suffering from exposure to asbestos', 21 May 1996

Notes and annotated copies of research papers re interpretation of fibre counts. Includes copies of

• copy of letter from Dr Allen Gibbs to the coroner of Staffordshire South, June 2000, critiquing OEDA analysis of lung tissue
• Nancy Tait's extended cv, version May 2001
• draft OEDA note 'Asbestos - lung cancer...?' c.1998
• HSE table ‘Death certificates mentioning specified asbestos related disease’ (1997)
• 'SPAID controls 1993'; as Nancy Tait explained, controls were not actually relevant to SPAID's work, which identified type rather than amount of asbestos present
• excerpt from Dr Allen Gibbs' testimony in the inquest on Mr Wiltshire, April 1988

This is followed by a set of scientific publications 1965-2000 arranged by reference number, many of them annotated by Nancy Tait. The text references these sources has not been identified.

The inscription 'Salter' may refer to a then current case with which OEDA was involved.

Set of photocopies from 'The Times' 1965-1967, with a listing summarising each article:

• (A) Wed 17 Mar 1965 p. 7: “research into hazards of asbestos”
• (B) Sat 12 Jun 1965 p. 8: “Asbestos poisoning from overalls”
• (C) Fri 15 Apr 1966 p. 15: “Science and Medicine: Examining the hazards to health of asbestos”
• (D) Mon 4 Jul 1966 p. 10: “Village tips case for inquiry”
• (E) Fri 11 Apr 1967 p. 2: “Lung risks, so trains drop asbestos”
• (F) Sat 20 May 1967 p. 15: “New health guard for asbestos workers”
• (G)-(J) Tu 28 Nov 1967 – special supplement on asbestos p. I-IV

Documentation from a number of projects relating to fibre counting, starting with the most recent project.

Correspondence and papers (including drafts) re SPAID publication on 'Asbestos and dockers', c.1985-1988, including earlier materials c.1966-1982.

• version of 'Asbestos and dockers', dated 1988
• photocopy of Martin Stower (April 1985) 'Dockworkers and asbestos-related diseases' ('Health and safety at work', pp. 36, 38) and typescript draft
• typescript of SPAID note 17b 'Asbestos kills husband and wife'
• documentation from the Turner & Newall Archive relating to asbestos widow Molly Fisher, whose husband Samuel Fisher had been an asbestos spinner; also press coverage re safety limits