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Mainly correspondence with John Pickering & Partners solicitors Ruth Davies, Neil Fisher, Carolann Hepworth, Kevin Johnson and James Thompson. In reverse chronological order. Includes case information.

Includes copies of

• Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) consultation paper 'The law of damages' (2007)
• John Pickering & Partners 'Response ... to an invitation from the Department for Work and Pensions to submit proposals for mesothelioma compensation claims' (November 2006)

Press coverage, May to December 1984. In reverse chronological order. Original cuttings mostly mounted.

Mainly on asbestos (all aspects - impact on health, state of the industry, regulation, accountability of lawyers, etc) but also covers other themes.

Correspondence and papers re various editions of the information pack 'Problems arising from the use of asbestos in buildings: papers assembled by SPAID'.

Includes copies of various SPAID notes from the pack, as well as SPAID note 22A ('Asbestos in buildings: effects on health and exposure'), reproducing the Health & Safety Commission publication on the topic by Richard Doll and Julian Peto, 1985. Further, former note 49 ('Industry information: the mineral asbestos'), from 'Asbestos - its special attributes and uses' of the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC), 1975.

'Asbestos newsletter' reported on this programme: "This thirty minute documentary examined the on-going problem of asbestos in London schools, apartment and civic buildings. It highlighted the pioneering work of Mrs Nancy Tait, founder of SPAID (the Society for Prevention of Asbestosis and Industrial Diseases), who has been warning since 1982 of the mesothelioma epidemic only recently identified by British epidemiologist Professor Julian Peto. The program was followed by a one hour discussion and phone-in on local radio in which Mrs. Tait, Professor Peto and Nigel Bryson of the General Municipal and Boilermakers Union answered callers' queries and debated the issues raised. The radio 4 BBC series: Face the Facts broadcast a special forty minute program on March 4 which looked at the history of asbestos in the UK."

Nancy Tait's office diary for the year 1998.

Dark blue cover, 21.8 x 15.4 cm.

A4 size address book of cases (name / address / disease).

Marked up using the following colour code:

• red: SPAID/OEDA asbestos-related case register
• green: claim no longer proceeding
• brown: pre-employment medical taken little notice of
• blue + pink: claim started + settled – length of time taken

Correspondence 1988-2004 and pamphlets, leaflets and booklets, news releases, etc. re health & safety concerning threats other than asbestos.

Includes

• copy of HSC 'A strategy for workplace health & safety in Great Britain to 2010 and beyond'
• also series of individual employees workplace health issues and how they are managed
• list of organisations concerned with H & S information, 1986

Material relating to the deposition of Professor David Michael Ozonoff, in Chase Manhattan Bank v. T&N plc et al., United States District Court, Southern District of New York.

Prof. Ozonoff testified as an expert on the history of public knowledge on asbestos health hazards and the relationship of asbestos to disease.

Set of industry brochures on paints, waterproofing substances for roofs and walls, damp-proofing and similar.

Correspondence and papers re grant application for core funding from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.

OEDA applied for £60,450 per annum for three years, in the category 'Corporate responsibility', promising to work 'for changes in the law to ensure that companies protect workers and the community from the risk of asbestos [and that] all victims of asbestos and their families receive fair compensation from ensurers, employers and government departments'. To cover these issues OEDA proposed to develop their publications and information service.

The application was unsuccessful.

Correspondence relating to fundraising events in 1999 and 2003.

Mrs Maureen Ward’s reference files on various actions, in alphabetical order from ‘Access to health records’ to ‘Wales (Gibbs)’. Chiefly master documents for safekeeping and ready use but occasionally includes drafts and copies of documents not to be found elsewhere in the archive. As follows:

• access to health records
• ALG LBGU
• All Party Group
• appeal letters
• applications - funding
• asbestos in buildings and similar
• ban
• cleaning and parking - office
• conditional fees
• conferences
• debates etc - House of Commons, PQs
• DWP
• DIY
• E M
• Fairchild
• funding
• garage workers
• HSE
• HSE books
• IIAC
• info packs
• LAAPS
• lists assorted - addresses specialists
• low dose
• media - news releases etc
• newsletter and info
• NT
• occupational exposure
• OEDA
• oxygen
• publication lists, donation acknowledgements etc.
• research papers
• solicitors
• SPAID
• statistics
• St B
• treatment
• Wales (Gibbs)

Nancy Tait’s extensive typescript comments on a draft of Nicholas Wikeley's book on the evolution of compensation for victims of asbestos-related disease in the UK. Also some related correspondence (including Dr P Dewis’ response on seeing a draft), and copy of typescript draft of the book.