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Copies of HSE guidance notes and technical data notes. Also list of guidance notes, c.1990.

Various editions of Field Fisher Waterhouse's 'Asbestos disease claims: a client's guide', c.1992 to 2006.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda), notes and papers. In alphabetical order by name of the enquirer (affected individual, family member, social worker, asbestos activist, organisation) or name mentioned in press coverage.

Contains detailed medical and legal information, also ephemera including Christmas cards and correspondence relating to donations. Includes copies of death certificates. Also photocopies of literature sent.

Unlike the earlier Q-files series, includes also enquiries from students in health & safety-related fields, concerned members of the public in general (and so forth). Prior to c.2000, these had been handled in a separate series, listed unter OEDA/C/1/4.

Invitation card; press cuttings from ‘The Herald’, 25 October 2006 (photocopy), ‘Express’, 26 October 2006 and ‘Evening Times (Glasgow)’, 25 October 2006; speech by Professor Andrew Hamnett, Principal of the University of Strathclyde, typescript.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and papers chiefly re funding for Mavis Robinson’s Mesothelioma Patient Information Project, Leeds, initially funded by Macmillan Cancer Relief. Also papers re the founding of the British Mesothelioma Interest Group in 2001.

Includes charity leaflets and articles, newsletters concerning conferences, trials, etc..

Mavis Robinson was a nurse who set up the first dedicated mesothelioma helpline. In 2001 she was awarded an MBE for her seminal work assisting UK asbestos victims and their carers.

Correspondence with Kerry Dukes, including correspondence re the OEDA Northamptonshire Support Group, 1996-c.2000, and re Ms Dukes subsequent activities.

Includes table of Northants cases with contact information, OEDA case number etc.

Kerry Dukes is the daughter of Wayne Dukes, who died of an asbestos-related disease in October 1996. She set up the OEDA Northants support group in 1996 and joined the OEDA Management Committee in 1999.

Letter to Nigel Spearing with Christopher Booker copied in, furnishing scientific evidence that Booker is wrong to downplay the danger of white asbestos. This is Nancy Tait's reponse to Booker's articles on 'The great asbestos scam', Sunday Telegraph 6 August 2006 and 15 October 2006.

Also includes earlier letter to Booker (1998) and photocopy of Hansard report of parliamentary debate on ‘methods of monitoring asbestos and progress made in developing alternatives’, 1981.

Correspondence with experts and journalists, July-August 2006, re Y Suzuki & S R Yuen (2001) ‘Asbestos tissue burden study on human malignant mesothelioma’. Nancy Tait attempted to establish why the study appeared to have been ignored by asbestos ban advocates. The background were news reports in the summer of 2006, responding to the Labour government's U-turn on its controversial scheme to force home sellers to produce home information packs (HIPs).

• Bound volume containing issues for 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1964
• Bound volume containing issues for 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1972
• Loose issues for the following years: 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 (Jubilee Edition), 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1994-1995, 1995-1996, 1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2006-2007.

A successor to previous student publications, the Ross Hall Times and the Spatule, the Scottish Hotel School Students' Journal was established in 1961 and renamed the Strathclyde Hotelier in 1965. It was produced by the students as a year book of the Scottish Hotel School, but was also used by them as a means of contacting former students and of helping to get themselves recognised within the hotel and tourism industry.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) with Anthony Coombs, in reverse chronological order. Includes

• colour print-out of Coombs’ new website and guide on ‘Mesothelioma compensation’ (c.2005)
• photocopy of conference workbook ‘Mealey’s asbestos liability forum’ 17-18 November 2005

After 25 years with John Pickering & Partners, Coombs set up as an independent solicitor ('Claimant Asbestos Solicitor') in 2005.

Correspondence with John Pickering & Partners LLP, organised by topic:

• shipping
• compensation (including re compensation bill 2005)
• Cape plc (re group action against the company on behalf of South African miners)
• fibre counts
• the Fairchild judgement
• Association of British Insurers (ABI); includes copy of ABI's ‘Guidelines for apportioning and handling employers liability mesothelioma claims’ (2003)
• restructuring of Zurich Insurance Company
• T&N, including correspondence with the administrators of T&N

• 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’).

Correspondence and papers re a conference on asbestos lung cancer organised by Ruth Davies of John Pickering & Partners, Manchester University, 14 March 2006. Includes:

• correspondence and papers re Nancy Tait's presentation on the history and statistics of asbestos-related lung cancer, the current regulations, and problems
• draft copy of the presentation and copies of slides of her earlier presentations at Greater Manchester Hazards Centre and Greater Manchester Asbestos Victims Support Group (GMAVSG)
• agenda, list of attendees, index of speakers
• papers by Dr Robin Rudd, Dr Leslie Davidson, Frank Burton QC, R L Whittaker (coroner), Liz Darlison (nurse consultant at Mesothelioma UK), Peter Deary (forensic scientist)

Mostly papers. Includes copy of 'Construction Safety Campaign news' summer 2006.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) chiefly between Maureen Ward and Jack Raeburn of the DTLR/DETR, in the earlier years with Mr D Meredith and Mr T Brownlee at the Department of Employment. Covers orders for forms PWC1, PWC2, etc., discussions on the ‘Pneumoconiosis etc (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979’, the ‘Pneumoconiosis etc (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 1991’ and ‘… 1996’, ‘Draft code of practice on tracing employers’ liability insurers: consultative document’ (1999), information on how to calculate mesothelioma payments, etc.

Also a little correspondence and (few) papers re compensation claims from Department of Employment.

DTLR/ DETR = Department for Transport, Local Government & the Regions/Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions.