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Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and papers re active medical appeal cases and re appeal procedures.

Correspondents include appellants and administrators, among them Mr Edward Smith of North London Regional Medical Appeal Tribunal, and Mr Richard Thomas, assistant administrator at the Independent Tribunal Service (ITS), London. Further,

• correspondence with Prof. Brian Heard (Royal College of Pathologists) re reliance of London Social Medical Boards on Brompton Hospital and the judgement of Prof. Brian Corrin, and re advice on staining techniques to establish histology of a cancer and on the diagnosis of asbestosis and cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (CFA)
• correspondence and papers re reforms of the appeals procedures, 1999, in whose course the ITS came to be replaced by The Appeals Service
• list of appeals represented by SPAID, "outstanding as at 16 March 1989"
• list of active cases June-July 1986
• correspondence re MAT cases 1983-1985

The London North and London South Regions SSAT & MAT was formed in 1991, a merger of the old London North and London South Regions.

'SSAT' stands for Social Security Appeals Tribunal.

Correspondence and papers re meetings of the Tribunal User Group (TUG), 1996-2007.

The TUG appears to have been set up by the Independent Tribunal Service (ITS), London. Following reforms of the appeals procedures, 1999, the ITS came to be replaced by The Appeals Service.

Includes correspondence with solicitor Rodney Nelson-Jones.

Correspondence, c.1984-2006, and papers re decisions of the Social Security Commissioner concerning industrial disablement, 1993-2003. In alphabetical order by name of appellant. In several of these appeals SPAID / OEDA was involved.

Further includes:

• copy of 'Decisions of the Tribunal of Social Security Commissioners' (October 2002) re four appeals in respect of prescribed disease D1 (pneumoconiosis) for coal workers
• 'Early papers':
• part of letter from John Patten re local tribunals being independent statutory authorities
• photocopies of reported (published) decisions of the Commissioner 1953-1984
• photocopies from literature on the law of social security and industrial injuries benefits

Reported decision No R(I) 6/85 of 14 December 1984 pointed out that SPAID had obtained a large amount of evidence, almost wholly statistical, to further the appeal in question. "Unhappily", the decision went on, the evidence submitted did "not bear on the issue in the appeal and it would have been advisable, and have saved time, if [Mrs Tait] had clarified the issue and perhaps obtained advice on the legal aspects of the case rather than obtain a mass of evidence which is relatively useless in the context of this appeal". This was not intended as a criticism of Tait's conscientious effort for the evidence she obtained. The Commissioner in question was J S Watson.

Samples of consent forms, to give Nancy Tait permission to access medical records, to represent clients vis-as-vis the Department of Work & Pensions (DWP), to request lung tissue sample for EM analysis, and similar.

Set of standard letters and slips. Includes copy of instructions 'New case procedures' for progressing new enquiries.

2 versions of a draft memo, handwritten in Nancy Tait's handwriting, regarding the direction of SPAID as it approaches its 10th anniversary. Memo makes reference to the increasing numbers of enquiries and plans to create standardised information packs to help answer them. Written on the back of copies of a SPAID leaflet.

Set of standard letters with which SPAID / OEDA responded to enquiries.

Set of SPAID notes (master & copies), originally housed in plastic document sleeves (each labelled), summarising information for claimants and solicitors. Includes

• inventory / table of contents
• some correspondence 1986-1987
• sheets (for solicitors) on the Pneumoconiosis etc (Workers' Compensation) Act 1979, the "Old Cases" scheme, war pensions, provisional damages, late claims
• sheets (for claimants) on the Department of Employment, the Pneumoconiosis etc (Workers' Compensation) Act 1979, 'What should you expect from a solicitor?', deductions from damages, late claims, 'Compensation: how much can you expect to recover?'
• sheets (for advisors only) on 'Change of diagnosis', deductions from damages, late claims
• sheets on the modern industrial injuries scheme and on the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977

Also various drafts for a SPAID case support manual, summarising the meaning of relevant terms, regulations, processes re industrial injury compensation and benefit claims. Appears to have subsequently evolved into numbered SPAID notes on each topic; see link below.

SPAID information packs D (for compensation from former employers and weekly benefits from DSS/DHSS) and E (industrial death benefit).

Virtually complete set of SPAID notes 1-56.

Various versions of SPAID/OEDA note 25 ('Asbestos cement - the current situation'), c.1981-c.1997. Also copies of SPAID note 23 ('News release: mesothelioma and asbestos cement').

Correspondence and papers (including drafts) re SPAID notes on statistics, including:

• correspondence with the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) re death records mentioning mesothelioma, 1986-1987
• versions of SPAID note 43 (‘Statistics – number of deaths and death rates per million of mesothelioma, by age, 1968 to 1985 England and Wales. Figures provided by OPCS')
• materials relating to SPAID note 44a (‘Statistics – population: cause of death and estimate industrial diseases notification’), 23 September 1987
• materials relating to SPAID note 44b (‘New form for medical certificate of cause of death, Industrial Disease Notification (Act) 1981’), including correspondence with OPCS and samples of newly designed forms for medical certificates of the cause of death, c.1985

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.

Yellow document wallets, each originally with nearly 100 copies of the asbestos information sheet it contained. As follows:

• ' (a) DSS boards and problems | (for mature students – thesis and projects) | Dec 87': containing document ‘SPAID secretary's report' 1 December 87
• '(b) For mature students only | Help for asbestos victims | Meeting Sponsored by Frank Field MP and John Hunt MP Nov ‘87': containing document ‘Help for asbestos victims … Nov 1987’
• '(c) Check with NT before sending| "Introduction to asbestos related disease" by Dr Hanson)': containing document as described, by Dr Audrey Hanson MD FRCP
• '(d) Check with NT before sending | "Current situation regarding compensation for asbestos induced diseases" by Dr Rudd) | 1-12-87': containing document as described, by Dr Robin Rudd, consultant physician at the London Chest Hospital
• '(e) The asbestos disease - prevention and care | by Nancy Tait. | Oct 87': as described