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FIle of papers related to purely administrative functions. Includes:
-a list of printed labels for letters
-a typed list of names and addresses, probably for use when posting newsletters etc.
-typed list of addresses of charities, 1980s

Correspondence mainly with Adrian Budgen, at the time Head of the Asbestos Disease Litigation Unit at Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, and papers. Covers current cases, legal developments, specific issues (e.g. preservation of tissue in asbestos cases / PRO instructions to destroy coroners’ record after 15 years), conferences, fibre counts, OEDA fundraising, etc.

For earlier correspondence with Budgen, see link below.

SPAID information packs D (for compensation from former employers and weekly benefits from DSS/DHSS) and E (industrial death benefit).

12 series:

• Early campaigning
• Correspondence with MPS
• Legal Working Party
• Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC)
• Health & Safety Executive (HSE)
• Coroners and medical boards
• Compensation recovery
• All Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health Asbestos Sub-committee
• Asbestos ban campaign
• Section 10 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947
• Ministry of Defence (MOD) Joint Compensation Review
• Consultative panel: pathology of asbestos disease

Correspondence with and about safety and environment campaigner Alan Dalton.
Includes:
-Papers about the TUC Safety Convention 1997
-Correspondence about the death of Alan Dalton, on 11 Dec 2003, and his funeral
-A document: 'A Tribute to Alan Dalton'
-Minutes of a meeting of the National Hazards Campaign, 15 July 2002
-Papers and correspondence about a joint Hazards Campaign/TUC conference, 23 April 2001, at which Nancy Tait spoke
-Invitation to Alan Dalton's 50th Birthday Party
-Press Releases
-Some copies of Dalton articles
-Correspondence about Alan's involvement in and his leaving the 'Transport and General Workers' Union' (T&G)
-Correspondence about the OEDA 'balloon release', 1998
-Dalton's comments on the 'Peto Report', 1997
-Correspondence about fibre levels
-Copy of booklet 'Fighting Asbestos at work & at home'
-Copies of various articles about asbestos
-Copy of an article about John McPherson's story: 'Gleswegians fight asbestos'

Papers and correspondence including

• draft HSE (1999) 'Asbestos (prohibitions) (amendment) regulations' and papers from an industry seminar on the topic in January 2000, which Nancy Tait was unable to attend
• HSE press releases
• copy of SI 1998 No 3233 'Asbestos (licensing) (amendment) regulations 1998'
• Department of the Environment (1995) 'Industry profile: asbestos manufacturing works'
• HSC Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances / Mrs M Meldrum (1995) 'Review of fibre toxicology'
• Medical Research Council Institute for Environment and Health (1995) 'Natural and man made fibres: UK research priorities'
• HSE statement on asbestos 1994

Notes on a selection of literature on lung cancer, c.1992. Also includes copies of case correspondence and copy of R Doll and J Peto (1985) 'Asbestos: effects on health of exposure to asbestos', with Nancy Tait's instruction to SPAID colleague Martin [Stower]: 'Please list the parts you consider most important or most easily challenged'.

Analytics of telephone calls 1997-1999. Also includes a set of telephone memoranda and correspondence, July 1991 to January 1997.

Correspondence with Andy Shaw of Higgs & Sons, solicitors, re his reelection to the OEDA Management Committee, Turner & Newall being placed in administration, etc. Includes

• information pack on the Turner & Newall Scheme Trust Fund, 2006
• copy of judgement in Rothwell v. Chemical & Insulating Co Ltd and another, Court of Appeal, Queen's Bench Division (26 January 2006); a pleural plaque case

Personal injury lawyer Andrew Shaw of Higgs & Son Solicitors served on the OEDA Management Committee 2005-2007.

Documents relating to Nancy Tait's presentation (with Dr Vernon J Harvey) ‘Mesothelioma patients referred to Hackney Hospital – a preliminary report’, presented at the Anglo-French Social Medicine conference, Winchester, 1983.

Includes abstract, typescript of paper, typescript of case notes.

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'

Mainly tables and graphs visualising the organisation's performance 1988-1995.