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...
Repeal of compensation law would have detrimental consequences for victims and the NHS
Victims of clinical negligence are able to claim compensation for private healthcare costs, so that they do not have to return to the NHS to access...
Simple law change needed to help victims of asbestos cancer
A campaign for a simple change to the law so all victims of lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos at work are treated equally is to be debated...
Catastrophic injury victims must receive full and fair compensation
Changes are needed to protect severely injured people from being undercompensated by the courts in Northern Ireland, lawyers have told the Department...
Wrong to assume raiding interest on client accounts is ‘free money’, APIL warns
Government plans to raid the interest generated on law firms’ client accounts would be another attack on the beleaguered civil justice system,...
Law on AI must be changed to protect injured people
Laws in the UK need an urgent update so patients who suffer injuries where faulty artificial intelligence (AI) is used in their treatment can pursue...
Frustrating delays in Scotland are damaging to injured people
Severely injured people in Scotland remain at risk of being undercompensated due to a seven-year delay in bringing in new court rules, lawyers...
Relief as Government backtracks on extra defence for abuse defendants
A decision to drop controversial legal plans that would cause further trauma to survivors of child sexual abuse has been welcomed by...
Obvious problems with the fixed recoverable costs regime, lawyers say
The extended fixed recoverable costs (FRC) system is mired in uncertainty for injured people and law firms, APIL has...
Regulators must target ‘problem players’ in high-volume claims market
Regulators must resist any impulse to completely overhaul the high-volume claims market and instead target the ‘problem players’, APIL...
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....
Senior Communications Manager Jane Hartwell 0115 943 5416 [email protected]
Press and Communications Officer Julie Crouch 0115 943 5408 [email protected]
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