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Correspondence, in reverse chronological order, covering a wide range of topics including

  • constituents' industrial injuries and their problems in claiming compensation
  • the OEDA newsletter
  • upcoming conferences
  • the campaign to ban asbestos
  • the state of death reporting
  • statistics on industrial injuries benefits and asbestos-related disease
  • pneumoconiosis medical panels ignoring recent research and not doing their job properly
  • European regulations on the prevention of environmental pollution by asbestos
Sheffield and surrounds
  • correspondence with Mick Firth and Paula Walker of Sheffield & Rotherham Asbestos Group (SARAG) and copies of SARAG newsletter 1-11 (2003-2006)
  • correspondence and papers relating to other projects and activities in the area, notably the Rotherham Occupational Health Project and the Sheffield Occupational Health project, etc.
CancerBACUP

Correspondence with and re CancerBACUP 1985-2007, in reverse chronological order. Includes

  • correspondence with cancer victims and their families
  • updates on how OEDA is described in the CancerBACUP directory

For OEDA's holdings of CancerBACUP publications, consult the OEDA collection of printed material; see link below.

Mainly correspondence with John Pickering & Partners solicitors Ruth Davies, Neil Fisher, Carolann Hepworth, Kevin Johnson and James Thompson. In reverse chronological order. Includes case information.

Includes copies of

  • Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) consultation paper 'The law of damages' (2007)
  • John Pickering & Partners 'Response ... to an invitation from the Department for Work and Pensions to submit proposals for mesothelioma compensation claims' (November 2006)
John Pickering cases
GB 249 OEDA/B/2/3/1 · File · 1983, 2003-2007
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

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’.

Queries ('Q-files'), 2007

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

Correspondence and papers in alphabetical order by name of law firm. Papers include client medical and employment histories, legal opinions, booklets and leaflets about law firms, personal injury law suits etc.

More than occasional correspondence with the following solicitors / law firms:

  • Challinors Lyon Clark
  • Evill & Coleman
  • Field Fisher Waterhouse
  • Alexander Harris (including copies of the Alexander Harris magazine 'The reporter', 2003-2006)
  • Irvin Mitchell
  • Leigh Day & Co
  • Morrish & Co (including copies of the firm's in-house legal journal, 'Bulletin', issue 8, 9 and 15, 2002-2006
  • Jeffrey Parsons of J M Parsons & Co (and previously Davey Parsons & Co)
  • J Pickering & Partners
  • Rowley Ashworth
  • Simpson Millar
  • Thompsons
  • Brigitte Chandler of Townsends (from 2003 of Charles Lucas & Marshall) and also of the Swindon & South West Asbestos Group

Originally this aggregation was dedicated to fielding enquiries from solicitors in pursuit of health-related personal injury claims.

Over the years OEDA staff took to filing all solicitors' correspondence here, including their fundraising activities on behalf of the charity, the (at times rather hefty) booklets and other promotional material distributed by law firms, correspondence re solicitors' contributions to the OEDA newsletter, and so forth.

Correspondence and papers re SPAID’s campaign, jointly with Clydeside Action on Asbestos and other bodies, to change the rules of compensation recoupment. Includes

  • guidance from Compensation Recovery Unit (CRU) re changes arising from the expected introduction, on 29 January 2007, of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003
  • briefing by Clydeside Action on Asbestos & Thompsons solicitors on the ‘Social security (recovery of benefits) bill’ 1996
  • copy of Price Waterhouse (January 1996) ‘Compliance cost assessment compensation recovery scheme’
  • copy of Social Security Select Committee (21 June 1995) 'Fourth report: compensation recovery', which was critical of the work of the CRU
  • correspondence with and re the Social Security Committee and its inquiry into the CRU, 1994-1995
  • copies of Benefits Agency guidance booklets 'Deduction from compensation' (1990 and n.d.)

With the Social Security Act 1989 the Conservative government had introduced a DSS benefits recovery scheme. Unlike under the earlier system, where only damages awarded for loss of earnings were affected, under the 1989 Act recovery was made from total damages.

Correspondence, chiefly with Ian McKechnie, Adam McKechnie and Phyllis Craig of Clydeside Action on Asbestos (CAA). Also includes photocopies of press coverage, copies of CAA newsletters and CAA publications on mesothelioma trials and news, incidental case correspondence, listing of Scottish press cuttings re asbestos 1978-1985.

Correspondence chiefly with Thomas ('Tommy') Gorman of West Dunbartonshire Council, Welfare Rights Representation Unit. Includes

  • correspondence and papers re Clydebank Asbestos Group (CAG)
  • CAG workers’ memorial day 2007 & announcement of CAG international conference 2007
  • copies of CAG ‘Asbestos update’ (2003-2006, incomplete set)
  • documentation re Convention of the Short Life Working Group on Asbestos (COSLA) and copy of the COSLA report, June 2002
  • copy draft Gorman (1998) ‘Women, the most forgotten victims’
  • photocopy Gorman (1997) ’A case study of the settlement process’ ('Sourcebook on asbestos diseases' vol 15: 354-373)

Correspondence with Adrian Budgen, Caroline Pinfold and colleagues at Irwin Mitchell solicitors, and papers. Covers coroner’s views on mesothelioma from low levels of asbestos exposure, the impact of the insolvency of Chester Street Insurance Holdings Ltd, conferences, Helsinki criteria, Irwin Mitchell news, funding of civil compensation claims (conditional fees), also anonymised version of Prof. Attanoos’ report on one of Pinfold’s lung cancer cases (2006). Includes

  • news coverage
  • coroners' reports
  • correspondence re and draft judgment in appeal Holtby v. Brigham & Cowan (Hull) Ltd, Royal Court of Justice, 6 April 2000; a judgement involving apportionment of damages between negligent employers

Further includes copies of

  • Irwin Mitchell ‘Injury/illness welfare benefits booklet’ (1998, 2000, 2005/2006, 2006/2007) and some Irwin Mitchell leaflets & flyers
  • Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DTLR) (2002) ‘Code of practice for tracing employers’ liability policies: Annual review statement 1 November 1999 – 30 October 2000’
  • DTLR (1999) ‘Code of practice for tracing employers’ liability insurance policies’
  • Employment Department consultative document 'Review of Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969 and related legislation' (27 April 1995)
Andrew Shaw, 2006-2007

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.