No-one ever expects to suffer a needless injury but the reality is that it happens to thousands of people each year in the UK.

They will have started their day like any other, perhaps going to work, taking children to school, or meeting friends. Then due to someone else’s negligence they suffer an injury that changes the course of their lives for months, years, or even permanently.

Last year alone, more than 2,500 injured people contacted APIL needing help. Injured people who come to APIL are put in touch with one of our accredited members. The fact that we have 50 injured people calling our office each week demonstrates an obvious need for APIL to be able to connect injured people with quality, specialist representation. I myself am proud to be accredited. The accreditation reassures injured victims of negligence that they are in the very best hands, and that the lawyer has met certain standards of expertise, experience and training.

After all, personal injury lawyers undertake a critical job for people who are going through what is probably the very worst thing to happen to them.

Lawyers secure recompense, resources, and rehabilitation, and they are also a source of much-needed comfort, companionship, and reassurance to injured people and their families. When an injured person meets their lawyer, it can sometimes feel like the first time someone is in their corner. It is often a lawyer who unearths what happened to the victim and provides desperately-needed answers. Injured people tell us that their lawyers have become friends, even like family, as they navigated them through the legal processes and carried them out the other side with their needs met.

As well as a directory of accredited individual lawyers, APIL can also put people in touch with entire accredited firms, who have met a comprehensive criterion of expertise and experience.

Accredited APIL members are from all areas of personal injury, including those who specialise in helping victims of car crashes, medical negligence, workplace injuries, or representing survivors of abuse. They will always give clear and honest advice with the victim’s welfare in mind, and are able to give initial, no-obligation, advice. They also sign APIL’s code of conduct, whereby they pledge to act in their client’s best interests at all times.

Many major law firms are also ‘corporate supporter’ members of APIL which sees them work collaboratively with the association on key personal injury campaigns and research. Find out more about the APIL Corporate Supporter Scheme here.

If you are an APIL member and would like to assist any of the thousands of injured victims of negligence who contact us through our public enquiries line, find out more about how to become APIL accredited.  

And if you have stumbled upon this page in search of help, we are here for you. To locate a lawyer near you, use this link. Alternatively, you can speak to Leesha Weir, APIL’s membership services officer, on 0115 943 5400 or email [email protected].