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...
New law needed so medics are honest when treatment goes wrong
A new law requiring healthcare staff to always be open and honest with patients and families when there are safety failures during treatment is long...
IICSA redress recommendations rejected
The Government has rejected recommendations made by the long-running Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) in a move which dismisses...
Reaction to HM Treasury report on the effect of the Civil Liability Act 2018 on motor insurance policyholders
Jonathan Scarsbrook, immediate past president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) said: “There has been a 71 per cent...
Regulate NHS managers and end the cover up culture, lawyers urge
NHS managers who are responsible for services and departments where patients’ lives have been endangered must not be allowed to walk into new...
Mum told her working class background and accent would hold her back is now leading UK lawyer
Top lawyer Kim Harrison would love to meet up with her old careers’ advisor again – and tell her she was so wrong. As a...
Failures in “low risk” beauty treatments leaving consumers with lifelong injuries
Scottish beauty therapists and healthcare practitioners carrying out non-surgical cosmetic treatments such as liquid Brazilian butt lifts and Botox...
Lawyers welcome abolition of time limit for child abuse claims
Lawyers representing victims and survivors of child abuse have welcomed the Government’s decision to abolish the three-year time limit on...
Chance to “right a wrong” in employers’ liability claims
A bid to reverse Coalition Government legislation which led to increased complexity and uncertainty in workplace injury claims has been launched by a...
Duty of candour is central to preventing patient safety incidents in the NHS
Preventing needless deaths and injuries to patients must be a key pillar of NHS England’s new ten-year health plan, a campaign group has...
Road Safety Week: Full compensation for crash victims is an issue for all
Severely injured people and their complex life-long needs must be front and centre of an ongoing review of how compensation is calculated, a campaign...
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