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Letter in support of Mr Lawrie Charles Hawkins.

Mrs Maureen Ward’s reference files on various actions, in alphabetical order from ‘Access to health records’ to ‘Wales (Gibbs)’. Chiefly master documents for safekeeping and ready use but occasionally includes drafts and copies of documents not to be found elsewhere in the archive. As follows:

• access to health records
• ALG LBGU
• All Party Group
• appeal letters
• applications - funding
• asbestos in buildings and similar
• ban
• cleaning and parking - office
• conditional fees
• conferences
• debates etc - House of Commons, PQs
• DWP
• DIY
• E M
• Fairchild
• funding
• garage workers
• HSE
• HSE books
• IIAC
• info packs
• LAAPS
• lists assorted - addresses specialists
• low dose
• media - news releases etc
• newsletter and info
• NT
• occupational exposure
• OEDA
• oxygen
• publication lists, donation acknowledgements etc.
• research papers
• solicitors
• SPAID
• statistics
• St B
• treatment
• Wales (Gibbs)

Mainly copies of correspondence and papers, collected at an unknown date and filed in reverse chronological order either by date of document or by date/date on which it sheds light. Includes papers covering all aspects of the work of SPAID and OEDA.

Originally included a tissue sample (probably wet, formalin fixed lung tissue, c.1-2) grms) and nuclepore filter (pore size 0.2 microns) with gold support grid for carbon film. The tissue sample has been removed in compliance with the Human Tissue (Scotland) Act 2006.

Folders and date of material within as follows:

OEDA/J/9/1: 2000-2005
OEDA/J/9/2: 1999
OEDA/J/9/3: 1998
OEDA/J/9/4: 1996-1997
OEDA/J/9/5: 1993-1995
OEDA/J/9/6: 1991-1992
OEDA/J/9/7: 1988-1990
OEDA/J/9/8: 1985-1987
OEDA/J/9/9: 1988 Charity Cards
OEDA/J/9/10: 1984
OEDA/J/9/11: 1983
OEDA/J/9/12: 1982
OEDA/J/9/13: 1981
OEDA/J/9/14: 1980
OEDA/J/9/15: 1976-1979
OEDA/J/9/16: 1934-1975

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 with representatives of the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC) and its critics; among the former, AIC director W Penney and AIC deputy chairman Wilfred P Howard.

Topics covered include Nancy Tait's unanswered questions regarding the death of her husband, William Ashton Tait; the facts of asbestos; Tait's booklet 'Asbestos kills' (1976); and various AIC publications.

Further includes

• AIC leaflets and technical information notes, among them ‘Asbestos in the home’ (1983) and ‘Asbestos in building’ (1983)
• AIC's commentary on 'Asbestos killer dust' by Alan Dalton / the British Society for the Social Responsibility in Science, 1979
• AIC's commentary on Nancy Tait's booklet 'Asbestos kills'
• documentation re the asbestos industry's intense advertising campaign in June-July 1976
• Tait's detailed criticism of the Asbestos Research Council (ARC) educational leaflets 'Safe working with asbestos'
• a little correspondence with the ARC, 1969-1977

Also includes a little material re the Asbestos International Association (AIA), whose director general at the time, Alex Cross (A A Cross), requested access to the comments of the Study Group on Asbestos of the Economic and Social Committee of the EEC (Section for Protection of the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Affairs) on Tait's booklet 'Asbestos kills'.

The AIC was set up by the Asbestos Research Council (ARC) in 1967 to manage asbestos publicity (and lobbying). Sometime in the late 1970s the AIC changed its name to Asbestos Information Centre. Nancy Tait and other critics of the AIC found many of the AIC's statements inaccurate.

The set of aggregations originally contained a photocopy of the AIC's typescript ‘ACA final report - 24 October 1979: Industry Information Kit’. This duplicated material elsewhere in the collection; see link below, 'Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos'.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) with Citizens Advice Bureaux across the UK. In alphabetical order by place name, from 'Aberconwy' to 'York'.

Instructions on filing, CAB fliers and address list of CABs across the UK at front of file.

• correspondence with June Freeman, 1994-2001
• photocopies of June Freeman's correspondence and papers arising from the death of her son Simon, 1992-1994; includes a copy of Simon Freeman's postmortem report

June Freeman's son died in November 1992, following solvent exposure at work. She sued his employer and campaigned for better protection of workers from solvents.

Correspondence, 1989-1994, in reverse chronological order. Includes extensive papers on all manner of asbestos-related matters, 1906-1976, including

• photocopies of Kazan-Allen's highly international correspondence
• photocopies of historical documents, among them papers relating to the construction of the Queen Mary from the John Brown shipyard records, University of Glasgow, and papers relating to a lawsuit involving the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB), c.1960-1976
• documents and discussions on the state of knowledge re asbestos spraying, 1940s-1960s
• correspondence re orders for copies of the SPAID asbestos bibliography
• photocopies from 'Mealey's litigation reports' on the Manville Trust litigation, August 1990-April 1992
• scientific publications including papers by Kvetoslav Rudolph Spurny (1923-1999), expert on fibrous particles
• press coverage
• occasional coroners' reports

Correspondence with Edward Priestley, 2004, and copies of some earlier material.

Priestley questioned medical authority and health & safety authority on their assessment of drug safety and the impact of exposure to chemicals and radiation. As of 2005, Priestley maintained a website on medicine and illness, http://www.medicineandillness.com/. Reportedly, he was born 10 September 1940 and is a fellow of the European Medical Association.

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.

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 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)

Correspondence with Rodney Nelson-Jones of Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP. Covers current cases, legal developments, expert testimony, the OEDA newsletter, Coda (the asbestos companies' database) and OEDA fundraising. Also correspondence re Philipp Lockwood, who briefly acted as executive director of OEDA during 1994.

Papers include

• copy of judgement in James Kelly (administrator of the estate of Patrick John Kelly deceased) v. Smith & Partners Ltd, High Court of Justice (Queen’s Bench Division), 9 November 2000
• pp. 1-8 of judgement in Alan Ford v. Clarbeston Ltd and Walter Lawrence Construction Ltd, Bristol County Court, 23 May 1997
• copy memorandum Andrew Morgan re ‘Legal aid: the problem of “rich widows” and interim payments’, 4 August 1997
• overview of cases, personal injury limitation law (cases were: re Advance Insulation Ltd, Arnold v. Central Electricity Generating Board, Brooks v. J&P Coates (UK) Ltd, Buck v. English Electric Co Ltd, Clarkson v. Modern Foundries Ltd, Cotton v. General Electric Co Ltd, Guidera v. NEI Projects (India) Ltd, Keenan v. Miller Insulation Ltd, Lea v. Armitage Shanks Group Ltd, McCaul v. Elias Wild & Sons Ltd, McLaren v. Harland and Wolff Ltd, Newton v. Cammell Laird & Co Ltd, Price v. Dannimac Ltd, re Regent Insulation Co Ltd, Reynolds v. Spousal (London) Ltd, Rule v. Atlas Stone Co, Tatlock v. GP Worsley & Co Ltd)
• copy of judgement in Jennifer Catherine Charles v. Preston Thomas Ltd, High Court of Justice (Queen’s Bench Division), 13 May 1993

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) chiefly with John Pickering, in reverse chronological order. Covers cases, referrals, donations to OEDA, content of the OEDA newsletter, the Law Commission’s consultation paper on limitation of actions, Nancy Tait’s correspondence with Wilfred P Howard (deputy chairman of the Asbestos Information Committee), Pickering’s application to court for discovery of documents from Asbestos Research Council and Asbestos Information Committee, JP & Partner’s ‘Guide to asbestos compensation’, re tracing the origins of the assumption that household exposure to asbestos is minimal, re papers received from Chase Manhattan.

Includes transcript of judgement in Christine Ballantine v. Newalls Insulation Co Ltd (1999).

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)