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Records (including legal opinions, court summons etc.) relating to legal actions regarding the site of the Dalmuir factory of Turner Asbestos Cement Co Ltd (TAC), later TAC Construction Materials Ltd.

Legal papers is re Monaville Estates Ltd v. TAC Construction Materials Ltd.

Closes with account of legal costs 1981-1986 for professional services rendered by Biggart Baillie & Gifford, W.S., Solicitors, in regard to "the first Action by Clydebank City Council against Monaville Estates Ltd [etc. and] regarding the second Action raised by Monaville Estates Ltd".

Correspondence and papers re Nancy Tait's presentation at the 8th Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Annual International Safety and Health Exhibition and Congress, Birmingham, 22-24 May 1990.

Includes drafts of the paper, conference guide.

The latter contains notes on speakers, with photographs. Tait was the only female speaker, as the conference organisers found important to point out.

Includes meetings of Engineering and Chemical societies, including Society for Chemical Industry.

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through the London Boroughs Grant Scheme. Includes extensive application for refunding, containing detailed financial information, an anonymised listing of new OEDA cases in the London region, self assessment, samples of OEDA policies and forms, etc.

Correspondence and papers re Shaw’s parachute jump 2006, to raise funds for OEDA.

Personal injury lawyer Andrew Shaw of Higgs & Son Solicitors served on the OEDA Management Committee 2005-2007.

Deposition of Dr Allen Robert Gibbs (18 February 1999), in Haas v. Raybestos-Manhattan, no further details.

Includes:

• Nancy Tait's notes on a condensed transcript of the deposition
• annotated copy of the condensed deposition
• clean copy plus index

Possibly recording of a seminar organised by the HSC & the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Belfast, 12 June 1995, whose principal objective was to look at problems arising from work-related respiratory disorders, including asthma and asbestos-related diseases.

Asbestos victims in Northern Ireland were greatly disadvantaged by the lack of a local support network for sufferers; reportedly the possibility of establishing a victims-led group was discussed.

Neil Rafeek and Hilary Young in conversation with Fife miners Colin Peebles and John Gillon, Culross, Fife, 15 January 2005.

• sound recording (23 minutes 42 seconds) and transcript

Interview C24.

Case register arranged alphabetically by surname with columns for name/address/disease. In address field, date of SPAID-contact. No case numbers.

Further includes a ‘Special interest’ section containing:

• list of British ships (25 October 1994), alphabetized by last name
• (partial) list (case-numbered) of ?mesothelioma? cases, with information on settlement, press coverage; some aggregated by ‘short exposures’, ‘special interest’
• press items, list of MRSA sufferers, list lung cancer cases, bronchiectasis, cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis etc.

Further includes

• list of overseas cases 1988-2007, in chronological order
• medical reports by Dr R M Rudd, 2000

Mrs J Bryant was a long-serving member of staff.

Folder entitled 'Press: 97/98'