A London and Cardiff-based barrister has taken on a leading role for a national not-for-profit campaign group for injured people. Stephen Glynn of...
APIL has welcomed a second layperson on to its executive committee among new officers elected at the association’s annual...
Cutting damages for injured babies whose futures have been destroyed by negligence is not the solution to the patient safety crisis in the NHS, a...
Lawyers vehemently oppose the inclusion of vulnerable patients and people who have died through NHS failures in a new streamlined regime for clinical...
At the time of writing, news is expected from the committee of MPs which is looking at reforms to the system for claiming compensation against the...
Plans to dismantle the Human Rights Act and create legal hurdles for ordinary people who seek to hold public bodies to account are abhorrent....
Peers have flexed their political muscles on legal aid for bereaved families at inquests. Yesterday the House of Lords voted by 136 to 112 for an...
You will be hard pressed to find someone with an interest in politics who does not have an opinion on whether we should still have the House of Lords...
Claimant lawyers have welcomed news from the Government that it does not intend to proceed with further reforms to whiplash claims. The...
Severely injured people in Northern Ireland can make low-risk investments with their compensation to make it last for life from today (22 March)...
There’s a news story about e-scooters almost every day. Most recently, police have seized privately-owned e-scooters that were being ridden...
Letter to The Times (Monday 7 February) When hospitals, local authorities and other offices of the State are involved in an inquest, their legal...
Government proposals to limit the amount injured patients can recover for legal help after needless injury would put unfair restrictions on people...
APIL has opened the doors of its governing board to laypeople, with the appointment of Victoria Lebrec to the association’s executive committee...
Bereaved families must not be sidelined in coroner plans Government moves to clear the backlog of inquests in coroner’s courts must not...
New report gives voice to “devastated” NHS patients Injured NHS patients have spoken out about the human cost of clinical negligence...
Unmarried dads whose children are wrongfully killed are snubbed by the woefully outdated law on bereavement compensation in Northern Ireland....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
Head of Public Affairs Lorraine Gwinnutt 0115 943 5400 [email protected]
Communications Manager Jane Hartwell 0115 943 5416 [email protected]
Press & Communications Assistant Asher Mayers-Thompson 0115 943 5431 [email protected]