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Correspondence and papers re enquiries resulting from 'Asbestos - killer they all want us to forget', Sunday Mirror, 6 October 1996. Includes:

• copy of the article
• correspondence with inquirers, in alphabetical order
• also correspondence and papers re a projected article (by Tim Kelsey) for The Sunday Times, July 1996

Correspondence with John Pickering & Partners LLP, organised by topic:

• shipping
• compensation (including re compensation bill 2005)
• Cape plc (re group action against the company on behalf of South African miners)
• fibre counts
• the Fairchild judgement
• Association of British Insurers (ABI); includes copy of ABI's ‘Guidelines for apportioning and handling employers liability mesothelioma claims’ (2003)
• restructuring of Zurich Insurance Company
• T&N, including correspondence with the administrators of T&N

Overseas correspondence, primarily re asbestos-related diseases. In reverse chronological order.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) chiefly between Maureen Ward and Jack Raeburn of the DTLR/DETR, in the earlier years with Mr D Meredith and Mr T Brownlee at the Department of Employment. Covers orders for forms PWC1, PWC2, etc., discussions on the ‘Pneumoconiosis etc (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979’, the ‘Pneumoconiosis etc (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 1991’ and ‘… 1996’, ‘Draft code of practice on tracing employers’ liability insurers: consultative document’ (1999), information on how to calculate mesothelioma payments, etc.

Also a little correspondence and (few) papers re compensation claims from Department of Employment.

DTLR/ DETR = Department for Transport, Local Government & the Regions/Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions.

Correspondence and papers (including drafts) re SPAID publication on 'Asbestos and dockers', c.1985-1988, including earlier materials c.1966-1982.

• version of 'Asbestos and dockers', dated 1988
• photocopy of Martin Stower (April 1985) 'Dockworkers and asbestos-related diseases' ('Health and safety at work', pp. 36, 38) and typescript draft
• typescript of SPAID note 17b 'Asbestos kills husband and wife'
• documentation from the Turner & Newall Archive relating to asbestos widow Molly Fisher, whose husband Samuel Fisher had been an asbestos spinner; also press coverage re safety limits

• board with black and white photograph mounted (marked 'Ultra thin' at front and 'B34' at the back; stamped 'Queen Mary College Biological Electron Microscope Unit')
• black and white photograph, two sizes, of object under microscope; '10kv x1,000 10μm 541005'

Nancy Tait's response to Consultation Paper CP 08/02 on the implementation of the Joint Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission report (September 2002) ‘Third parties – rights against insurers’. Includes:

• Nancy Tait's response, November 2002
• annotated copy of Lord Chancellor's Department (September 2002) ‘Third parties – rights against insurers: a Consultation Paper on the implementation of the Joint Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission Report "Third parties – rights against insurers" by way of a regulatory reform order'
• Department for Constitutional Affairs (February 2004) 'Third parties – rights against insurers: analysis of the responses to the Consultation Paper on the implementation of the Joint Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission Report "Third parties – rights against insurers" by way of a regulatory reform order' (CP (R) 08/02)

Application for core funding from the Rowan Charitable Trust.

OEDA applied for £10,000 for 2003-2004, reducing to £5,000 and £2,000 over the following years.

Drafts (October 1999, January 2000) of 'MDHS 100: surveying, sampling and assessment of asbestos containing materials' and correspondence. Also copy practical guide to the implications of MDHS 100.

Photocopy of Federal Register (25 February 1987), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763.

Press coverage, January to December 1985. In reverse chronological order. Original cuttings mostly mounted.

Mainly on asbestos (all aspects - impact on health, state of the industry, regulation, accountability of lawyers, etc) but also covers other themes including nuclear power, the environmental impact of chemical plant, cancer research, etc.

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

Mainly copies of correspondence and papers, collected at an unknown date and filed in reverse chronological order either by date of document or by date/date on which it sheds light. Includes papers covering all aspects of the work of SPAID and OEDA.

Originally included a tissue sample (probably wet, formalin fixed lung tissue, c.1-2) grms) and nuclepore filter (pore size 0.2 microns) with gold support grid for carbon film. The tissue sample has been removed in compliance with the Human Tissue (Scotland) Act 2006.

Folders and date of material within as follows:

OEDA/J/9/1: 2000-2005
OEDA/J/9/2: 1999
OEDA/J/9/3: 1998
OEDA/J/9/4: 1996-1997
OEDA/J/9/5: 1993-1995
OEDA/J/9/6: 1991-1992
OEDA/J/9/7: 1988-1990
OEDA/J/9/8: 1985-1987
OEDA/J/9/9: 1988 Charity Cards
OEDA/J/9/10: 1984
OEDA/J/9/11: 1983
OEDA/J/9/12: 1982
OEDA/J/9/13: 1981
OEDA/J/9/14: 1980
OEDA/J/9/15: 1976-1979
OEDA/J/9/16: 1934-1975

Display board on the danger posed by power station demolition. Includes colour photographs of interiors, black and white photograph of Fulham power station with wall graffiti 'Asbestos dust kills', news coverage and flier alerting the population.

SPAID and OEDA labels.