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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)

Year books and departmental newsletters published by students and staff of the Scottish Hotel School.

Up to session 1993-1994, the annual report was produced as two companion documents: the annual report and the statistical supplement. Thereafter, a single document was produced each year, with the exception of session 1995-1996, for which there is a postgraduate supplement.

The photographs were commissioned by the University of Strathclyde.

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.

Brochure setting out the composition and aims of the Glasgow Research Partnership in Engineering, a major programme of investment in collaborative research involving the Scottish Funding Council and the Universities of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Paisley, and Glasgow Caledonian University. The Director of the Partnership is Professor Sir Jim McDonald, Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde, and the Engineering Faculty Officer is the general enquiries contact.

Election communications for the Moray constituency by-election held on 27th April 2006 from the following parties:
Scottish Conservative Party
Scottish Labour Party
Scottish National Party
Scottish Liberal Democrats
NHS First

Also two newspaper articles from The Northern Scot.

Certificates from George Heriot's School Edinburgh, 1899-1901; certificate in shorthand from Phonetic Institute, Bath, 1901; papers relating to appointments as pupil teacher, 1902, 1907; pupil teacher's certificate, 1907; teacher's certificate and related papers, 1909; photographs of staff and pupils at Whifflet Primary School, Coatbridge, c 1910; biographical information, 2006.