APIL is delighted to be returning to the Marriott Marble Arch Hotel in London for their 15th annual abuse conference, which is being held in association with ACAL.
This will be a hybrid event and delegates are invited to choose to either attend in person, or virtually, via the APIL app. All delegates will receive access to the recording of the conference and this will be available to view, on demand, for a period of six months.
Topics include:*
Acting for vulnerable clients and costs recovery in abuse cases - latest developments
- Different challenges that we face
- Why vulnerable cases are becoming more complex?
- Speakers: Jonathan Wheeler, Past APIL President, Bolt Burdon Kemp, London
- Samuel Hayman, Head of Costs, Bolt Burdon Kemp, London
Childhood trauma and the brain
- Speaker: Professor Eamon McCrory, Professor of Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology, UCL, London
Civil law in the child abuse sector
- Speaker: Kim Bond, Head of Development, NAPAC, London
Developing civil legal remedies around trafficking
- Speaker: Parosha Chandran, Barrister, One Pump Court, London
Image based sexual violence
- Revenge pornography
- Practicalities
- Legal review/update
- Speaker: Justin Levinson, Barrister, One Crown Office Row, London
Legal update
- FTR cases
- Vicarious liability
- Limitation
- Useful quantum cases
- Human rights
- Speaker: Nina Ross, Barrister, 12KBW, London
Panel session: Redress schemes following IICSA
- Merits and potential pitfalls of schemes
- Scottish and Irish perspectives
- Chaired by: Kim Harrison, APIL EC Member, Slater + Gordon Lawyers, Manchester
- Panellists:David Greenwood, Switalskis Solicitors LLP, Wakefield
- Kim Leslie, Digby Brown LLP, Edinburgh
- Dr Sinead Ring, Lecturer, Maynooth University, County Kildare
*Topics, speaker and programme may be subject to change.