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Correspondence and papers (including reports and press cuttings), 1982-2005, with some earlier material (1973-1979).

Correspondents include

• eminent scientist Prof Irving Selikoff, Dr Andrew Churg and environmental consultant Barry Castleman
• lawyers, among them from Armstrong, Gordon, Mitchell & Damiani, Cleveland; Jane B Cantor of Garruto Cantor Trial Lawyers, NJ; Patrick Guilfoyle, Washington; Leonard C Jacque of Jacque Admiralty Law Firm, Detroit; Michael O’Connor; Peters & Peters, Santa Monica; Terry Richardson of Blatt & Fales, South Carolina; Speights & Runyan, Attorneys at Law, South Carolina; Wallace & Graham, North Caroina; and Marc P Weingarten of Greitzer & Locks, Philadelphia
• also Dwight E Brown of Asbestos Hazards Programs
• writer Paul Brodeur

Includes

• copy of documents relating to the Ahearn class action: US District Court, Eastern District of Texas [c.1993] 'Overview of and questions & answers on the global settlement agreement and the Ahearn class action'; copy of notice of class action [c.1994] Gerald Ahearn et al. v. Fibreboard Corporation et al., US District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division; and copy of notice of pendency of defendant class action [etc.], Continental Casualty Company et al. v. Daniel Herman Rudd Jr. et al., US District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division
• photocopy of court summons Beatrice Angio v. Celotex Corporation (May 1983)
• magazine articles and press cuttings, including re houses in Laguna Beach and Malibu being spared by recent fires in California, in part due to the use of asbestos tiles, in part due to substituting ice plants for the native sagebrush
• conference information (participants lists) for 'Biological Effects of Mineral Fibres', Lyon, France, 25-27 September 1979

Continues exchanges begun 1975-1977; see link below.

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.

Recording from the conference 'The third wave of asbestos disease: exposure to asbestos in place. Public health control', Collegium Ramazzini, New York, 7-9 June 1990.

Correspondence arising from the conference ‘The third wave of asbestos disease’ (referred to by Nancy Tait as "Selikoff's conference") and papers. Includes:

• conference programme, annotated
• report of the exchange between Nancy Tait and Dr Abida Haque at the conference
• Tait's news release on her return from New York and alerts to press contacts
• photocopies of scientific papers 1974-1996 exploring transfer of asbestos to unborn children
• copy of conference proceedings' table of content

There also is a video recording of the conference; see link below.

Correspondence and papers re meeting ‘Asbestos – what next?’, Grand Committee Room, Westminster Hall, Houses of Parliament on 20 October 1982. The meeting was sponsored and arranged with SPAID by Nigel Spearing MP, Jack Ashley MP and Alan Clark MP. It focused on prevention (controls to protect workers and the general public) and help (for victims) regarding the threat posed by asbestos in home and environment. These and absence of control limits were issues not addressed by the recent Simpson Committee.

Structured as follows:

• report on the meeting, SPAID discussion paper, list of those invited and signature sheet of those who attended, correspondence with MPs
• correspondence arising from the meeting, October 1982 - January 1983
• correspondence July to October 1982 (prior to the meeting)
• papers c. 1971-1982

Correspondence and papers re Nancy Tait's “lung cancer paper”, presented at session 10 (epidemiology) at the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) conference ‘Occupational hygiene ‘98’, Institute of Education 31 March – 2 April 1998.

Includes abstract, copy of paper, research material for preparing the abstract and the talk itself. Also conference programme, list of participants, preliminary correspondence with Robin Howie (occupational hygiene consultant and past president of BOHS), correspondence arising.

Further includes subsequent BOHS conference announcement.

Contains photocopies of SPAID/OEDA index cards listing individuals suffering from lung cancer and their case numbers.

Correspondence and papers (including Nancy Tait's notes and printed conference materials, among them a poster) re two conferences organised by the GMB in the Liverpool & North Wales & Irish Region, at which Tait spoke on the issue of compensation.

The seminars formed part of the GMB Asbestos Awareness Campaign and took place in Liverpool (11 October 1995) and Belfast (30 April 1996) respectively.

Includes photocopy of solicitors' case file in William John Willmitt v. Spousal (Midlands) Ltd and Ellesmere Port Insulation Co Ltd 1994.

In chronological order.

Correspondence with legal scholar Nicholas Wikeley (University of Birmingham) and papers including research papers and press reports. Covers both specific medical appeal cases and legal/regulatory provisions more generally, including Wikeley’s ongoing research.

Further includes a copy of Benefits Agency / Department of Social Security (1994) 'The medical assessment for incapacity benefit'.

Originally contained copies of Wikeley's publications (draft and/or final version). For ease of access, these have been extracted and added to the Wikeley publications elsewhere in the collection; see links 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)

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).

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