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Correspondence relating to OEDA cases referred to John Pickering & Partners, Solicitors. In alphabetical order by surname of client. Includes

• listing of OEDA cases by case number, client name, John Pickering & Partners solicitor, and date made into a compensation case

Also contains a copy of UK statutory instrument ‘Pneumoconiosis, byssinosis and miscellaneous diseases benefit scheme 1983’.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda), notes and papers. In alphabetical order by name of the enquirer (affected individual, family member, social worker, asbestos activist, organisation) or name mentioned in press coverage.

Contains both detailed medical and legal information, and ephemera including Christmas cards and correspondence relating to donations. Includes copies of death certificates. Also photocopies of literature sent.

Nancy Tait taught herself about asbestos, then proceeded to produce her own literature on the subject. These texts often were self-published and usually written by Nancy Tait herself. But the literature to which Tait contributed included also scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals. Of the earliest of these, no trace has been found in the collection. The piece in question is J S Gilson, N Tait, J Zussman, and R G Burns (1977) 'Medicine and mineralogy and discussion', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, A, 1336. 286 (1336): 585–592.

Correspondence and papers in alphabetical order by name of law firm. Papers include client medical and employment histories, legal opinions, booklets and leaflets about law firms, personal injury law suits etc.

More than occasional correspondence with the following solicitors / law firms:

• Challinors Lyon Clark
• Evill & Coleman
• Field Fisher Waterhouse
• Alexander Harris (including copies of the Alexander Harris magazine 'The reporter', 2003-2006)
• Irvin Mitchell
• Leigh Day & Co
• Morrish & Co (including copies of the firm's in-house legal journal, 'Bulletin', issue 8, 9 and 15, 2002-2006
• Jeffrey Parsons of J M Parsons & Co (and previously Davey Parsons & Co)
• J Pickering & Partners
• Rowley Ashworth
• Simpson Millar
• Thompsons
• Brigitte Chandler of Townsends (from 2003 of Charles Lucas & Marshall) and also of the Swindon & South West Asbestos Group

Originally this aggregation was dedicated to fielding enquiries from solicitors in pursuit of health-related personal injury claims.

Over the years OEDA staff took to filing all solicitors' correspondence here, including their fundraising activities on behalf of the charity, the (at times rather hefty) booklets and other promotional material distributed by law firms, correspondence re solicitors' contributions to the OEDA newsletter, and so forth.

Correspondence, chiefly with Ian McKechnie, Adam McKechnie and Phyllis Craig of Clydeside Action on Asbestos (CAA). Also includes photocopies of press coverage, copies of CAA newsletters and CAA publications on mesothelioma trials and news, incidental case correspondence, listing of Scottish press cuttings re asbestos 1978-1985.

Correspondence chiefly with Thomas ('Tommy') Gorman of West Dunbartonshire Council, Welfare Rights Representation Unit. Includes

• correspondence and papers re Clydebank Asbestos Group (CAG)
• CAG workers’ memorial day 2007 & announcement of CAG international conference 2007
• copies of CAG ‘Asbestos update’ (2003-2006, incomplete set)
• documentation re Convention of the Short Life Working Group on Asbestos (COSLA) and copy of the COSLA report, June 2002
• copy draft Gorman (1998) ‘Women, the most forgotten victims’
• photocopy Gorman (1997) ’A case study of the settlement process’ ('Sourcebook on asbestos diseases' vol 15: 354-373)

Emails and very occasional letters re news items on asbestos.

Rory O’Neill is the editor of Hazards magazine and a professor of Occupational Health Policy Research at the University of Stirling.

News coverage on asbestos in schools.

Correspondence and papers (including press coverage) relating to the administration of global manufacturer of automotive & vehicle safety products Federal Mogul's chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. Federal Mogul had acquired the international asbestos manufacturer Turner & Newall in 1998. In 2001, Federal Mogul sought chapter 11 protection in the US and Administration under the Insolvency Act 1986 in the UK.

Correspondence is chiefly with solicitors, also with Greater Manchester Asbestos Victims Support Group (GMAVSG).

In chronological order.

In reverse chronological order.

Includes overview of invoices May 1995-January 2007, samples of list of charges for response to inquiries, document supply, research per hour, searches through through the SPAID / OEDA database for company information, print-out of results of search, use of various services offered by the Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU).

Offers insight into what precisely SPAID / OEDA charged for and which services were provided for free.