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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

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)
Press cuttings 1985

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