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GB 249 OEDA/D/3/3/1 · Dossiê · 1978-1986
Parte de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Correspondence, chiefly with Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS), re death certification and re mesothelioma deaths making it into official death statistics. Includes draft of typescript 'Medical certificates of cause of death: notes for medical practitioners' (November 1984).

GB 249 OEDA/E/4/1 · Dossiê · 2002, 2004-2006
Parte de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Correspondence and papers re the IIAC report reviewing the prescription of asbestos-related diseases (ADR), Cm 6553. Presented to Parliament in February 2005 and published in July 2005, the report admitted that asbestos can lead to lung cancer without asbestosis being present. It was taken to signal UK Government changes to the compensation scheme for asbestos-related lung cancer.

Structured as follows:
-‘IIAC after publication’: correspondence arising (with lawyers, trade unionists, representatives of victims support groups), including congratulatory letters and local press coverage celebrating Nancy Tait for her campaign work

  • ‘Media inc Rory O’Neill’: correspondence re errors in graphs used in the report
  • ‘LKA Henderson’: correspondence with Laurie Kazan-Allen and a much annotated copy of D W Henderson et al. (2004) ‘After Helsinki: a multidisciplinary review of the relationship between asbestos exposure and lung cancer, with emphasis on studies published during 1997-2004'
  • ‘Ministers’ and ‘MPs’: a few press clippings and some incoming correspondence
  • ‘Before publication’: correspondence chiefly re delays in the production and publication of the report, January-July 2005. Includes correspondence with Prof A J Newman Taylor (chairman of the IIAC) and a number of MPs, as well as a draft of the IIAC report dated January 2005
  • ‘Hugh Robertson’: correspondence with Robertson, Owen Tudor's successor as senior health & safety policy officer of the TUC. Includes draft of the report dated November 2004
  • ‘N Tait’: materials from Nancy Tait's mailshots in October 2002 and spring 2004

Also includes copies of

  • IIAC ‘Annual report', 2003/4, 2004/5, 2005/6
  • Cm 6553 with manually inserted corrected graphs
GB 249 OEDA/F/2/5/1 · Dossiê · 1993, 1997-2000
Parte de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Correspondence (chiefly with John Flanagan) and papers, including agendas and minutes of meetings of the Liverpool and District Victims of Asbestos Support Group. Also press coverage, trade union news, conference information, research papers, some case information. Further includes

  • papers documenting foundation of National Asbestos Related Diseases Association (NARDA) as a nationwide body, 1997, and minutes of its meetings
  • copy judgement Eileen Hare v. TAC Construction Materials Ltd, Liverpool County Court, 1998
  • inquiry from Charlie Kavanagh, Liverpool Occupational Health Project, 23 April 1993, re data held by SPAID on financial cost to DSS of asbestos illness and also cost to DSS of asbestos medical tribunals, with photocopy of data entry masks of SPAID case database

Sometime during 2000 the Liverpool and District Victims of Asbestos Support Group changed its name to Merseyside Asbestos Victims Support Group.

Tyne & Wear Asbestos Support Group
GB 249 OEDA/F/2/6/1 · Dossiê · 2005-2007
Parte de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) with Robert Pointer, Tyne & Wear Asbestos Support Group / Barrow Asbestos-related Disease Support Group, re awareness-raising concerning the dangers of asbestos. Starts with request Pointer for information to be used at TUC annual conference, later foundation asbestos victims support group.

Plymouth Group
GB 249 OEDA/F/2/10/1 · Dossiê · 1997-2001
Parte de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Correspondence, 1997-1999, and papers re Plymouth, the Bill Luck's Plymouth asbestos support group, and the foundation of the National Asbestos Disease Association Limited (NARDA) as a national umbrella group of victims of asbestos related diseases (ARD) support groups.

Includes some historic documentation 1969-1976 as well.

GB 249 OEDA/F/3/5/1 · Dossiê · 1994-2006
Parte de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Correspondence with Owen Tudor, TUC Senior Policy Officer & TUC Health and Safety Officer, and papers. Includes TUC briefings, TUC asbestos leaflets, reports, conference information, draft reports.

Covers discussions of draft OEDA publication ‘Asbestos: more facts why body counts’ (2001) (the precursor of 'Asbestos: to challenge "fibre counts"'), work of the TUC ban asbestos working group, setting up an OEDA parliamentary panel of MPs with particular interest in compensation for asbestos victims (1998), how a database of insurance companies as potential defendants in asbestos compensation cases could be used, compensation for mesothelioma, TUC official support for safety charities such as OEDA and the RSI Association, access for OEDA to RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) litigation database, etc.

Includes copies of

  • TUC briefing documents for Workers' memorial day 2001
  • TUC / Jacqueline Paige (1999) 'Women's health and safety at work: a woman's work is never safe'
  • OEDA (1996) notes on 'Repetitive strain injury (RSI)' for TUC
  • TUC (1995) 'Registering asbestos in public buildings' and annotated draft version
  • TUC (1995) 'The future of union workplace safety representatives'
June Freeman correspondence
  • correspondence with June Freeman, 1994-2001
  • photocopies of June Freeman's correspondence and papers arising from the death of her son Simon, 1992-1994; includes a copy of Simon Freeman's postmortem report

June Freeman's son died in November 1992, following solvent exposure at work. She sued his employer and campaigned for better protection of workers from solvents.

Disability Alliance papers 1980-1990

Predominantly papers including

  • copy of Disability Alliance (1988) 'Severe disablement allowance: hard to claim, impossible to live on'
  • papers relating to the review of attendance allowance 1983-1984
  • copies of an exchange between Peter Townsend (chairperson of the Disability Alliance) and representatives of federations for the blind, 1983
  • SPAID commentary on Command Paper 8420 'Reform of the Industrial Injuries Scheme', March 1982
  • typescript 'Comments and recommendations regarding an employment policy for the disabled' and copy of Manpower Services Commission (1981) 'Review of the quota scheme for the employment of disabled people: a report' (1981)
  • copies of correspondence between Nancy Tait and speakers at a fringe meeting in Llandudno, September 1981
  • typescript Disability Alliance (1980) 'How many disabled people are there?'
  • copy of DHSS discussion document (February 1980) 'Industrial injuries compensation'
  • typescript Disability Alliance (1978) 'Memorandum to the DHSS about the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury' [Pearson Commission]
  • listing of Disability Alliance publications held in SPAID's Cuffley office

Correspondence and papers (including reports and press cuttings), 1982-2005, with some earlier material (1973-1979).

Correspondents include

  • eminent scientist Prof Irving Selikoff, Dr Andrew Churg and environmental consultant Barry Castleman
  • lawyers, among them from Armstrong, Gordon, Mitchell & Damiani, Cleveland; Jane B Cantor of Garruto Cantor Trial Lawyers, NJ; Patrick Guilfoyle, Washington; Leonard C Jacque of Jacque Admiralty Law Firm, Detroit; Michael O’Connor; Peters & Peters, Santa Monica; Terry Richardson of Blatt & Fales, South Carolina; Speights & Runyan, Attorneys at Law, South Carolina; Wallace & Graham, North Caroina; and Marc P Weingarten of Greitzer & Locks, Philadelphia
  • also Dwight E Brown of Asbestos Hazards Programs
  • writer Paul Brodeur

Includes

  • copy of documents relating to the Ahearn class action: US District Court, Eastern District of Texas [c.1993] 'Overview of and questions & answers on the global settlement agreement and the Ahearn class action'; copy of notice of class action [c.1994] Gerald Ahearn et al. v. Fibreboard Corporation et al., US District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division; and copy of notice of pendency of defendant class action [etc.], Continental Casualty Company et al. v. Daniel Herman Rudd Jr. et al., US District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division
  • photocopy of court summons Beatrice Angio v. Celotex Corporation (May 1983)
  • magazine articles and press cuttings, including re houses in Laguna Beach and Malibu being spared by recent fires in California, in part due to the use of asbestos tiles, in part due to substituting ice plants for the native sagebrush
  • conference information (participants lists) for 'Biological Effects of Mineral Fibres', Lyon, France, 25-27 September 1979

Continues exchanges begun 1975-1977; see link below.

Provisional damages 1992
GB 249 OEDA/G/6/1 · Dossiê · 1992, 1995-2000
Parte de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Correspondence discussing provisional damages, conditional fees and access to justice. Includes

  • Association of Personal Injury Lawyers' (APIL) responses to The Lord Chancellor's 1998 Consultation Paper 'Access to justice with conditional fees', and copy of the text in question
  • SPAID summary of what the then new conditional fee rules involve, 1995
  • sample provisional fees agreement Field Fisher Waterhouse and copy of the firm's client guide on provisional fees
  • photocopy of draft statutory instrument ‘Conditional fee agreement order' (1995)
  • correspondence with several law firms, among them Gadsby Wicks Solicitors (Chelmsford), Field Fisher Waterhouse and Rowley Ashworth, re Law Commission Consultation Paper on provisional damages (1992) and re conditional fees.
  • extract from the Law Commission's 1992 Consultation Paper on provisional damages (presumably 'Structured settlements and interim and provisional damages', Consultation Paper No 125)