Unmarried dads whose children are wrongfully killed are snubbed by the woefully outdated law on bereavement compensation in Northern Ireland....
Clear leadership and a coherent strategy are needed urgently if the patient safety crisis is to be resolved, a leading campaign organisation has...
Unmarried dads whose children are wrongfully killed are snubbed by the woefully outdated law on bereavement compensation in England and Wales....
APIL president Neil McKinley said: “The Government has decided to go ahead with plans to force ‘simpler’ cases valued...
An outright ban on phone calls and texts touting for personal injury compensation claims would have overwhelming support from the public, research...
More than half a million people suffered avoidable injuries in a year when the country was largely closed due to the Covid pandemic, campaigners are...
During this Injury Prevention Week (August 2-6) we are highlighting the difference between accident and negligence. The two are often misconstrued as...
More than half the UK population regularly fails to consider the safety of others as they go about their daily business, new research for Injury...
Re: Medical litigation (The Times 14 July) Three quarters of the NHS’s bill for negligence goes to patients in damages. Professor...
Government plans for patient safety investigations in the new Health and Care Bill will create a ‘wall of secrecy’, campaigners have...
Compensation for seriously injured people should continue to be calculated on the assumption that they make risk-free investments with the money, the...
Motorists or passengers who suffer whiplash injuries have had their compensation slashed. Those who are injured for up to three months are now...
The new rigid and derisory levels of compensation for whiplash injuries have nothing to do with putting injured people at the heart of the legal...
From APIL's AGM 2021
Many have voiced their shock, dismay and disappointment at the revelations by BBC Panorama that patient safety issues are being buried in...
People whose lives have been shattered by needless injury have been treated unfairly for too long, says the incoming president of a not-for-profit...
Families of people who have been needlessly killed are subject to a law which is out of touch and unjust, a Cambridge lawyer said today....
A new report published today (28 April) reveals the Government is on the wrong side of popular opinion on compensation for bereaved families....
Proposed whiplash tariffs would be a blunt instrument to deal with a problem that never existed, lawyers have said ahead of parliamentary debates...
APIL Northern Ireland representative Oonagh McClure said: “Finally, there will be some certainty for people with life-long,...
Injured armed forces personnel and veterans will be treated as second class citizens if restrictions to their legal rights are not dropped from a...
Abuse survivors in Scotland must not be forced to sacrifice their legal rights to protect the very organisations which allowed abuse to take place in...
Plans to change the way damages are calculated in Northern Ireland could leave people with life-changing injuries undercompensated and relying on the...
Justice for people injured by off-road vehicles is to be sacrificed in the name of Brexit, lawyers have warned. "The...
New safety measures are needed to protect Scottish homeowners from electrocution and electrical fires, lawyers have...
It can take many years for someone who has suffered sexual abuse as a child to tell a soul about what happened, let alone consider either reporting...
Two things caught my eye in the sector news last week. Firstly, the Government announced a further one-month delay to the whiplash reforms, now...
APIL president Sam Elsby said: “Work on the new system has been dangerously compressed to meet this artificial deadline, so we...
What happens when the personal injury discount rate changes, but everyone knows it will change again in the near future? How does this affect...
Campaigning lawyers representing people with catastrophic injuries have begun a legal challenge against the Department of Justice (DoJ)....
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