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Correspondence with and re CancerLink 1984-2007, in reverse chronological order. Includes leaflets and brochures of the charity, conference information, etc.

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'

A little correspondence (including telephone memoranda) yet mainly papers including TUC newsletters, guides, press coverage. Includes

• list of TUC unions by size (n.d.)
• copy ‘Hazardous times’ (newsletter of the Greater Manchester Hazards Centre) September 2000
• ‘TUC WRULDs campaign pack’ and ‘TUC Guide to assessing WRULD risks’ (1994)
• copy TUC typescript ‘Occupational diseases: evidence to the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council’ (?1979)
• copy typescript ‘Asbestos – an example of union attitudes to a health & safety problem’ (marked “earlier than December 1980”)
• copy typescript TUC meeting on compensation schemes for occupational diseases, accidents and ill health, n.d. (c.1979x1986)
• copy typescript TUC ‘Diagnosis and assessment of pneumoconiosis’ (1978x1979), with Nancy Tait's critical reading of the document (itself nearly 4 pp)
• copy of 'Summary of TUC recommendations to the Advisory Committee on Asbestos' [1976]

Correspondence with Raymond Macdonald, Albert Blyghton, Jim Heggie, and other representatives of the TGWU. Further includes correspondence with J Milne, General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress.

During the mid-1980s Raymond Macdonald's name appears among the trustees on SPAID's letter head.

Correspondence with occupational hygienist R Howie of Robin Howie Associates, Edinburgh. Includes copies of Howie’s letter to a client re ‘Asbestos fibre release from asbestos insulation board’ (April 2003) and his draft ‘An important source of errors in asbestos-related lung cancer estimates’ (September 2000).

Howie was a former President of British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS).

Correspondence, in reverse chronological order. Includes extensive papers on all manner of asbestos-related matters, including

• re asbestos mining in Chinese prisons; pollution and control in asbestos milling in India; Amianth factory in Auvelais, France; internal contamination of respirators; war-time factory workers who had been exposed to blue asbestos during production of gas masks; asbestos in Mafefe
• copies of articles by Kazan-Allen and photocopies of her international correspondence, among it with American lawyers re ongoing law suits and re what constitutes fair compensation
• donations for SPAID/OEDA

Includes

• photocopy of summary of INSERM report on the health effects of exposure to asbestos, 1996; INSERM is the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, i.e. the French biomedical and public health research institution created in 1964
• annotated copy of report by William Evans (partner at Dibb Lupton Broomhead, solicitors) on 'Asbestos and asthma claims: the future of claims covered by insurance' (c.1996)
• photocopy of company publication by Pyrok Ltd; pyrok is an asbestos free, vermiculite-based material that can be applied by spray or by trowel
• photocopy of BS 1334 'Pre-formed thermal insulating materials [etc]' (1947)

Correspondence, in reverse chronological order. Includes extensive papers on all manner of asbestos-related matters. Over the course of this file the correspondence becomes predominantly email.

Correspondence, in reverse chronological order. Nearly all of it email and email attachments.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) with business historian Geoffrey Tweedale. One theme of the exchange is arrangements for the OEDA archive. Includes

• drafts of Tweedale’s publications
• correspondence with London Metropolitan Archive
• photocopies of corporate correspondence from the asbestos industry, including Sumner Simpson, 1934-1957

Correspondence with barrister John Verdin Davies re fibrosing alveolitis and percentage assessment of disability for lung diseases. Includes CVs of Davies and Dr J K Anand.

Correspondence with Andy Shaw of Higgs & Sons, solicitors, re his reelection to the OEDA Management Committee, Turner & Newall being placed in administration, etc. Includes

• information pack on the Turner & Newall Scheme Trust Fund, 2006
• copy of judgement in Rothwell v. Chemical & Insulating Co Ltd and another, Court of Appeal, Queen's Bench Division (26 January 2006); a pleural plaque case

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

Correspondence and papers. The contact between Nancy Tait and the White Lung Association (WLA) dates back to at least 1984 and was renewed at the conference 'The third wave of asbestos disease: exposure to asbestos in place. Public health control', New York, 7-9 June 1990.

Correspondence with Canadian contacts (1979-1999) and re asbestos in Canada (to 2006), in reverse chronological order. Also papers including research papers, press coverage, news releases, sample death reporting forms. Themes covered include workmen’s compensation in Canada and the Canadian government’s resistance to banning asbestos.

Papers include

• copy of Canadian report on French chrysotile ban (in French, with a summary in English), 1999
• copy of OEDA newsletter (autumn 1998), discussing Canadian attitudes to asbestos
• Canadian regulations on chrysotile, 1998
• photocopies of articles by asbestosis victim and historian Ray Sentes, who had worked as an insulation worker in Canada prior to studying the Canadian asbestos industry and becoming an historian and activist
• Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety press releases 1989-1990, probably incomplete set
• copy of typescript G Atherley and R Whiting (1981) ‘Basic concepts of occupational cancers’, presented to the Canadian Labour Congress Conference on Cancer in the Workplace, Montreal, 23 February 1981
• copy of S Graham et al. [?1974] ‘Cancer in asbestos mining and other areas of Quebec’

One of Nancy Tait's earliest Canadian correspondents was Margaret R Becklake of McGill University. They met during Tait's visit to North America, 1977.

Over time this dossier changed from a correspondence with Canada file into a Canada-themed aggregation in which everything pertaining to the subject of asbestos in Canada accumulated.

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)