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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’.

Tables of compensation suits aggregated by employer, in alphabetical order (by name of employer). Capturing employer’s name, previous names, address, still trading yes/no, insurer’s name and address, followed by a table capturing case name, age, address, alive/dead, solicitor’s name, and compensation paid.

Further includes

• correspondence chiefly with solicitors asking for employer information, occasionally photocopies of employer index cards (possibly the previous filing system?)
• lists of case names compiled by disease with cross reference to case number
• photocopies from literature on 'Substances used by plumbers obtained for Murray case' and re sprayed asbestos and other asbestos news in the magazine 'Insulation review', 1959-1965 etc.

Consultancy assessments (‘Opinion’) re prospects of a claim, in alphabetical order by surname of plaintiff. Includes:

• list of health and safety consultants (‘Experts’)
• copies of assessments

Assessment appeared to be based on witness statements, inquest reports and medical reports. Consulting forensic engineers included Morgan Finch & Partners and Strange Strange & Gardner.

• mainly witness statements, arranged alphabetically by name of employer, occasionally also by surname of client or type of business (“dockyard”)
• occasionally particulars of claim

Named employers / insurers include: British Cellophane Ltd, British Insulated Calender Cables (BICC), British Telecommunications plc, Cape plc, Central Insulated Ltd, Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB), Ellistown Colliery, Ford Motor Company, R B Hilton Ltd, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), North Thames Gas, C A Parsons, Powergen Ltd, Rank Xerox, Redpath Brown, RTZ Estates Ltd, E A & H Sandford (Insulations) Ltd, etc.

Front matter includes guidelines for witness statements (‘Information which solicitors will require from colleagues’).

Background research on companies and their insurers, in alphabetical order chiefly by name of employer or their insurer. Occasionally also by first letter of subject of inquiry (e.g. 'Power stations', 'hair driers', 'printing works'). Includes:

• solicitor’s correspondence, client correspondence, press reports, notes, copies of ‘British asbestos newsletter’ with annotations re cases
• final report by F D Pooley [n.d.] 'Observations on the exposure of gas mark workers at the Boots plant'
• copy of judgement in James Kelly (administrator of the estate of Patrick John Kelly, deceased) v. Smith & Partners Ltd, High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, 2000
• judgement in Rachel Lubbe et al. v. Cape plc, Supreme Court of Judicature, Court of Appeal (Division), 1999
• annotated photocopy of '67th annual report of National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers for [...] 1964'
• advice by Timothy Grice in Brian Jerrard v. Ministry of Defence, 1996
• note on matter of Mr Edward James Patrick Russell v. Post Office, 1992
• copy of opinion of Lord Cameron of Lochbroom in cause Margery Patricia Cook or Rennie v. Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd et al., 1993

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda), in alphabetical order by surname of physician, occasionally also by case name. Covers a range of themes yet most extensively current cases.

Includes correspondence with Dr G S Basran of Rotherham General Hospital, including papers from the meeting 'Asbestos related diseases’, Rotherham medical seminars for lawyers, Rotherham General Hospital, 2 February 1996.

Original correspondence with and re asbestos affected individuals and/or members of their families, in alphabetical order (by surname of case), A-G. Also a little press coverage on asbestos cases 1969-1976.

Occasionally includes copies of death certificates; medical reports; DSS/DHSS applications.

Cases H-Z appear to be lost.

Folders 3 & 4 contain original correspondence and papers relating to specific cases such as 'Nationwide', 'Fenn', 'Adams', Curtis', 'Beare', Green' 'Grant'. Includes: case outcomes; copies of press clippings; letters appealing for help; and case notes.

Incoming correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and papers relating to cases dealt with during 1987. Concerns compensation, medical appeals, also claims advisory support in general.

Front matter is instructions on how to handle telephone messages in the SPAID office.

Topics covered include Glasgow Cancer Prevention Society, Nancy Tait's industrial death benefit, West Ham power station, nuclear radiation, compensation for gastrointestinal (GI) cancer, transfer of cases North, David Gee and publication on health trends, Yorkshire television, destruction of Inland Revenue records, war pensions.

Correspondence with and re the Department of Social Security. Structured as follows:

• front matter (1985-1990)
• 'DHSS Pneumoconiosis, byssinosis & misc.': case correspondence 1983-1985
• 'DHSS benefits'
• 'Special hardship allowance'
• 'DHSS Bl 77', 1983-1985 (Bl 77 was a form sent by DHSS to every employer listed in box 6 on form Bl 100 Pn)
• 'DHSS delays', a substantial section covering 1981-1985
• 'PMP', another substantial section, is administrative correspondence with Pneumoconiosis Medical Panels 1983-1986

Correspondence and papers relating to cases Nancy Tait dealt with 1990-1996 (and possibly after), in alphabetical order (by surname of individual affected).

Miscellaneous case correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and notes, 1989x1996, in alphabetical order (by surname).

Correspondence and papers relating to at least eight cases Nancy Tait dealt with in September and October 1997. Includes:

• note on Nancy Tait's disagreements with Dr A Gibbs concerning the interpretation of fibre counts on a case
• summary findings / diagnosis of another case
• correspondence and papers re suspected pesticide poisoning, a third case
• electron microscope findings for a fourth case
• correspondence re case five (deceased)
• papers re case six (deceased) including postmortem report, coroner’s verdict, 1997
• correspondence re histopathology of case seven, 1997
• plaintiff’s medical evidence and defendants’ medical evidence in Edna May Gibbons v. British Gas plc [1993]; also draft of Nancy Tait's summary of the court case
• correspondence re case eight, 1992
• copy of opinion of Lord Kirkwood in causa Mrs Esther Susannah McAnerney or Vize et al. v. Scott Lithgow Ltd et al., December 1990, with Nancy Tait's typescript notes (smoking, lung cancer)
• copy judgement Parkes v. Port of London Authority, 1987
• photocopy of index cards of SPAID lung cancer cases
• graphics of the lung