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OEDA Chase Manhattan Turner & Newall papers
Correspondence about the papers and Michael O'Connor's mission to distribute them, followed by Turner & Newall corporate papers relating to:minutes of meetingsindustry regulationcompensation (including all manner of case information)...
Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association
Leaflets introducing the organisation
SPAID / OEDA leaflets and fliers.
Poster visualising the organisation's areas of enduring interest: fellowship, legislation, fair compensation, protection for workers, an asbestos-free environment, fund raising.The poster's title line is 'Can we help you?'.
Obituaries of Nancy Tait collected by her colleague and friend Joan Griffiths. Further includes:correspondence between Nancy Tait and British Rail over her ticket, 1975, illustrating her tenaciousnessJoan Griffiths' compilation on Nancy Tait&...
Depositions from asbestos lawsuits 1975-1996
Depositions from asbestos lawsuits 1975-1996. These were chiefly taken in 1996 and in conjunction with lawsuits filed by South African plaintiffs.Also includes earlier depositions from other lawsuits with no direct South African connection.
Copy of John Christopher Wagner's M.D. thesis 'The pathology of asbestosis in South Africa', submitted at the School of Pathology, University of Witwatersrand, 1962.The thesis, which examined the risks of occupational and environmen...
'Dust to dust' (1981) and related papers
script and transcripts of World in Action documentary 'Dust to dust' (1981), manuscript & typescript notes of background interviews; correspondence arising from the documentary's transmission on 16 November 1981correspondence an...
'Death is part of the process' (1986) and related papers
correspondence with South African student Jaine Roberts 2000-2001, copy (2 versions) of Roberts’ Master Thesis on compensation of asbestos-related disease in Sehkukhunelandscript of World in Action (WIA) documentary 'Death is part of the proc...
Materials relating to research for one or several documentary projects on diamond mining, one of them presumably 'The diamond empire' (1994), produced by Flynn for the American current affairs programme 'Frontline'. Includes:r...
Miners' compensation / Leigh Day case origins
Correspondence chiefly with personal injury lawyer Richard Meeran of Leigh Day & Co solicitors, 1994-2001. Relates to case Afrika et al. v. Cape plc and its argument that a parent company owes a direct duty of care in tort to anybody injured b...
Miners' compensation in South Africa
Predominantly on mining workers' compensation. Includes:correspondence with John Carol Anthony (Tony) Davies, formerly Director of the National Centre for Occupational Health (Johannesburg), re his project of miners compensation, 1998-2000ann...
'You will know us by the trail of death'
Correspondence and news coverage following the out of court settlement in the South African group action brought against Cape plc (formerly Cape Asbestos Company Ltd, from 1974 Cape Industries Ltd) in December 2001, after a 5 year battle. Also ear...
Flynn's twin interest in the South African mining industry and in international corporations' conduct in Southern Africa dates back to his period with Granada Television's current affairs programme World in Action, 1979-1990. Over t...
Correspondence and papers, Flynn's drafts and manuscript notes c.1970-mid-1980s. Includes:draft article on the background of George VI's lung cancerdraft article for Socialist Worker c.1978, on the findings of the Advisory Committee on A...
Lawsuit against Central Asbestos Company Ltd
Bermondsey based factory Central Asbestos Company Ltd was sued by 7 former workers who had contracted asbestosis. In July 1970, the High Court found in favour of the plaintiffs, concluding that Central Asbestos had breached the Asbestos Industry R...