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Correspondence with solicitors at Evill and Coleman (London), Rowley Ashworth and Field Fisher Waterhouse re Law Commission Consultation Paper No 140 (1995) 'Damages for personal injury: non-pecuniary loss'.

Includes softback copy of the text in question.

Correspondence with solicitors of Leigh, Day & Co, John Pickering & Partners and Rowley Ashworth about Law Commission Consultation Paper No 151 (1998) 'Limitation of actions'.

Includes a soft-bound copy of the text in question.

Discussions of consultation papers on key issues of personal injury law.

Correspondence and papers (including press coverage), predominantly 2001-2006, re the former Turner Brothers Asbestos (TBA) Company site at Rochdale, Greater Manchester). Includes a little correspondence with Jason Addy of Irwin Mitchell Solicitors and with Barbara Balmer (daughter of Alan Balmer, asbestos victim). Themes covered include campaigning for compensation, redevelopment of the site, creation of an asbestos memorial for Nellie Kershaw, the first asbestos death on record (d.1924).

Includes a photocopy of 'Turner & Newall: the first fifty years' (c.1970) and other earlier material.

Set of booklets and industry brochures including

• TAC (n.d.) 'Q & A: living and working with TAC's asbestos cement products'
• TAC industry brochures on construction materials and building & insulation products
• TBA [?1970] 'The mineral asbestos'

Plaintiff's memorandum of law (1989), in Chase Manhattan Bank v. Turner & Newall plc, United States District Court, Southern District of New York. Discusses suppression of asbestos hazard prior to sale of Limpet to Chase Manhattan Bank. Includes a covering letter from Patrick S Guilfoyle of Ashcraft & Gerel, Washington, attorneys of Chase Manhattan Bank.

The lawsuit concerned 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York, the first large multi-storey building with sprayed mineral fibre, mostly Limpet.

Correspondence and papers re Armley, Yorkshire, and the Armley Asbestos Campaign 1992-1994. Includes:

• press coverage 1992-1996
• correspondence with Irene Merrill of Armley Asbestos Campaign, 1994, and further Armley Asbestos Campaign papers
• Leeds Council press pack, June 1994, including findings of Prof. Roger Wiley, who came to the conclusion that asbestos levels at Armley posed a negligible risk
• copy of briefing by Laurie Kazan-Allen on the Armley asbestos situation, 5 July 1993
• copy of environmental report by Wharfedale Environmental Services Ltd (10 August 1992) ‘Comparison of fibre count results on air samples taken in houses from Armley Area of Leeds between optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy’
• copy of Barrie N Barker (1989) ‘The history of Turner & Newall: review of the history of Turner & Newall Plc and Associated Companies; its dealings with asbestosis related diseases and its Employers’ Liability coverage with the Midland Assurance Ltd and other carriers’ (received from Laurie Kazan-Allen, July 1992)
• annotated copy of HSE Guidance Note EH 10 (Asbestos exposure limits etc.)

Correspondence and papers re benefits leaflets and forms, the majority issued by DHSS / DSS / DWP.

The Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) separated during 1988 to form two departments, one of which was the Department of Social Security (DSS). In 2001, the DSS was largely replaced by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), with the other responsibilities of the department assumed by the Treasury and the Ministry for Defence.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and order forms, chiefly re benefits leaflets and forms requisitioning from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the Department of Social Security (DSS) and the Benefits Agency (BA).

Includes correspondence re leaflets NI 226, NI 272 (NI226, NI272).

Correspondence and orders of Veterans Agency (VA) forms and leaflets, including an OEDA information requests re VA’s generally accepted medical thinking concerning asbestos-related disease, April 2006.

The Veterans Agency was an Executive Agency of the UK government's Ministry of Defence (MoD). It was amalgamated into the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency (SPVA) on 2 April 2007 under the brand Veterans-UK.

Collection of leaflets arranged in alphabetical order by reference code, beginning with BAL1 ('Tell us about it') and ending with Z3 ('Compensation recovery scheme'). Within leaflet type, in reverse chronological order.

Replicates the original arrangement. Note however that Nancy Tait's instructions for how new leaflets were to be listed was 'by title - alphabetically' and to 'give leaflet number & date, i.e. (1) Attendance allowance, (2) DS 702, (3) Nov 2002'.

SPAID/OEDA collected benefits leaflets widely. Retained here are those relating directly to the organisation's core activities, such as NI 3 ('If you have pneumoconiosis or byssinosis’) or FB 29 ('Help if someone dies’), while leaflets with no specific relationship with the charity, such as D11 ('NHS dental treatment’) or CWP1 ('Extra help with heating costs’) have been disposed of.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and order forms for a considerable range of Health & Safety publications, from 'Asbestos in Housing' and 'The work of the coroner' to 'Prevention of tractors overturning'. In reverse chronological order.

Includes a copy of leaflet 'Open government : explaining the code of practice on access to government information' (1995).

Excerpts from 'Hansard' and typescript Parliamentary Questions, usually annotated and/or marked.

Originally in multiple duplicates.

Copies of Hansard with annotations on the cover:

• House of Lords 4 August 1975: 'Avebury | Lung cancer | Meso'
• House of Lords 23 October 1975: 'For N. Tait please | Mesothelioma research'
• House of Commons 20 May 1976: '651 Beer | 699 Asbestos packaging | 721 Pneu[moconiosis]'
• House of Commons 21 November 1977: '467 taken for photocopy - asbestos | Max Madden'
• House of Commons 22 November 1977: '591/2 taken for p.copy - Asbestos | 949 early diag: asbestosis'
• House of Commons 2 May 1978: '76. 2 May Build safely with asbestos'

Annotated copies of Sixth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation debate the 'Draft Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2006', 9 February 2006.