A local lawyer has been elected onto the national executive committee of an organisation which campaigns for justice for injured people.

Kim Harrison will join the executive committee of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and help lead the 3,500-strong membership.

“I look forward to being a part of APIL’s executive committee,” said Kim. “I stood for this role so I could bring my specialist knowledge of civil abuse claims, industrial disease cases, expertise on inquests and associated human rights work to the table. I am committed to helping strengthen and develop the education, learning and development work APIL provides to personal injury lawyers to ensure injured people get the help that they so desperately need when they have been injured through no fault of their own.”

Kim is a personal injury lawyer at Slater and Gordon in Manchester.

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Notes to editors:

• APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers) is a not-for-profit organisation whose members are dedicated to campaigning for improvements in the law to help people who are injured or become ill through no fault of their own.
• For more information contact APIL's communications manager Jane Hartwell on t: 0115 943 5416, e: [email protected], or press and communications officer Lizzy Freeman t: 0115 943 5431, e: [email protected].
• Visit the association's website at www.apil.org.uk.
• Follow @APIL on Twitter: www.twitter.com/APIL.