APIL deals with the media on a daily basis, commenting on a variety of issues from legal reform to health and safety. We also run an annual Injury Awareness Week in August, which is designed to alert people to potential hazards and how to prevent them.
The press team aims to answer your query or provide you with a comment as quickly as possible. If we are unable to help, we will tell you, and try to point you in the right direction.
What we do for the media...
Public backlash against whiplash claims ‘crackdown’
Radical reforms which slashed compensation for whiplash injuries have proven to be unfair and unpopular, new polling reveals four years on....
APIL research blasts unfair, unsound, and unpopular whiplash reforms
Public opinion is not supportive of the whiplash reforms, fresh polling commissioned by APIL reveals. “Only a tiny fraction of the public,...
NHS transparency is key to cutting legal costs
Money could be saved in legal claims against the NHS if it were to uphold its duty to be transparent when patients suffer harm, lawyers representing...
Bid to ban email service ‘gamesmanship’ is welcomed by personal injury lawyers
Plans to ban the obstructive tactic used by some defendant lawyers of refusing to accept service of proceedings by email are long overdue, APIL...
Vigilance needed as clinical negligence costs are scrutinised
Delays in delivering redress to injured patients and the rising cost of social care are driving the NHS’s compensation bill, lawyers have told...
APIL wins major award for moving Rebuilding Shattered Lives film
A powerful short film about how a hit-and-run victim with severe injuries has been able to rebuild his life has earned a top award for the...
Pelvic mesh scandal can never be allowed to happen again, lawyers say
Lawyers are calling for a national register of medical products to be set up to prevent health scandals like pelvic mesh implants from happening...
Call for firms to sign up to ‘gold standard’ scheme with ‘transformative outcomes’
A joint initiative for the effective and efficient handling of catastrophic personal injury claims has been praised by parties on all sides as it...
Policy decisions have damaged access to justice
APIL has laid bare the ‘irrefutable prejudice’ against personal injury claimants and ensuing erosion of their right to redress, in...
Time to do the right thing by survivors of child sexual abuse
Lawyers are urging the Government to “do right by” survivors of child sexual abuse – and make long overdue changes to the...
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