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Correspondence and papers re an ABI-led voluntary scheme for work-related mesothelioma claims (in response to Fairchild judgement being upheld by Court of Appeal in December 2001).
Includes:

  • position paper by Anthony Coombs of John Pickering & Partners on UK disease compensation being under threat
  • summary of ABI scheme, copy of Nancy Tait's commentary on it, floppy disk presumably containing copy of proposals (marked diamdmp4.doc rnj-2.doc 29/04/02)
  • table of press coverage April 2002

Reportedly British Insurers went out of their way to stop the Law Lords from rehearing Fairchild v. Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd, along with Doreen Fox v. Spousal and Edwin Matthews v. The Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers.

Paper and correspondence with and re HSE proposals to amend the control of asbestos at work (CAW) regulations. Includes

  • correspondence with the HSE, in particular Jeanie Cruickshank and Carole Grainger
  • Nancy Tait's comments on HSE consultative document CD 159 (2000) on 'Proposals for amendments to the control of asbestos at work (CAW) regulations 1987 [etc]'
  • copy of House of Commons Research Paper 99/81 (5 October 1999) 'Asbestos'
  • OEDA response to HSE consultative document CD 140 (1998) on 'Proposed amendments to the asbestos (prohibitions) regulations 1992'
  • OEDA response to HSE consultative document CD 129 (1998) on 'Proposals for amendments to the asbestos regulations and supporting approved codes of practice'; also responses by GMB (General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trade Union) and by John Flanagan (Liverpool and District Victims of Asbestos Support Group)

End matter is copies of scientific and legal papers including

  • excerpt from J Addison & L S T Davies (1990) ‘Analysis of amphibole asbestos in chrysotile and other minerals’
  • extract from memorandum of law of plaintiff, Chase Manhattan Bank v. Turner & Newall plc and Turner & Newall Ltd, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 1989
  • copy of typescript G W Crockford & D Gazzi (1983) ‘Airborne asbestos dust survey of the Lisson Green flats: final report’
  • copy of 1981 announcement of HSC asbestos scheme
  • copy of William J Campbell et al. (1979) ‘Relationship of mineral habit to size characteristics for tremolite cleavage fragments and fibers’, Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation

Papers and correspondence with and re HSE consultative document for revised Asbestos Regulations and an Approved Code of Practice (CD 205), in particular re the proposal to remove asbestos-containing textured decorative coatings from the licensing regime. Includes

  • extensively annotated copy of Kevin Walkin and Geoff Lloyd (2006) 'A comparison of risks from different materials containing asbestos'
  • copy of response to CD 205 by Adrian K Watson
  • copy of summary of responses to CD 205 received
  • copy of Asbestos Removal Contractors Association (ARCA) document 'Questions raised and HSE's response following consultation on the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006'
  • summary of responses to CD 205 to be discussed at a stakeholder meeting on 4 April 2006
  • Nancy Tait's comments and response to CD 205
  • minutes of meeting of the All Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health Asbestos Sub-Committee, 22 November 2005
  • various versions of minutes of stakeholder meeting to discuss HSE proposals to implement the amendments to the Asbestos Worker Protection Directive (AWPD), 11 August 2005
  • Nancy Tait's comments on the stakeholder meeting of 11 August 2005