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Executive committee members

Kim Harrison

Immediate Past President

Firm: SLATER & GORDON UK LTD

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Role	Name
President	Matthew Tuff
Vice President	Guy Forster
Treasurer	Gordon Dalyell
Secretary	Brett Dixon
Immediate Past President	Kim Harrison
Committee members	James Byrne Erin Darling-Finan Nikki Ealey Daniel Easton Sabrina Lawlor John McQuater Pauline Roberts Jonathan Scarsbrook Suzanne White
Lay EC members	Musa Garba Victoria Lebrec
Past Officers and EC members

Kim Harrison is a principal lawyer and joint head of abuse law and public inquiries team at Slater & Gordon Solicitors. She acts for abuse survivors in civil cases against various institutions including churches and religious institutions, schools, hospitals, local authorities, sports clubs, the Scout Association and the Ministry of Defence.

Previously a partner at Pannone LLP, where amongst other roles Kim headed up the firms Actions Against the Police team, Kim has a First Class Honours Degree in Law from the University of Sheffield.

She specialises in case of ‘failure to remove/failure to protect’ in both negligence and human rights acting for children against local authority social services department.

She acted for a number of core participants in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) including in the Anglican, Nottinghamshire Care Homes, Westminster, Lambeth, Child Sexual Exploitation by Organised Networks, Residential Schools and Janner modules. She represented APIL in the Accountability and Reparations module arguing for reform of the law of limitation in non-recent child sexual abuse cases which was subsequently recommended by IICSA’s final report.

She acted for 11 families of the victims of the Manchester Arena Bombing in the Public Inquiry and also acts for clients in the Covid-19 Public Inquiry.

She has published widely in various legal journals and websites including LexisNexis, NLJ, JPIL, PILJ, Justice Gap and has lectured internally and externally on a wide range of topics including most recently on Sexual Violence and the Military and the CICA scheme and the law around consent and CSE.

She successfully sued the Ministry of Defence in a human rights case for breach of Article 3 (right not to be subjected to inhuman and/or degrading treatment) in relation to serious sexual assaults perpetrated by Libyan cadets staying at Bassingbourn barracks upon members of the public https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/15/mod-victims-sexual-abuse-libyan-cadets-damages

She regularly and appears on TV and radio to comment on abuse law and government policy in this area including appearances on BBC Breakfast, Newsnight, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme and World at One, Channel 4 news, BBC and ITN news, Sky, radio 5 live and many others. Recent media appearances have centred on the parole board’s decision (now quashed) to release John Worboys the taxi cab rapist and also the conviction of Barry Bennell.

Kim was elected as the APIL president for May 2024-2025. She is an APIL accredited senior litigator and a former member of the JPIL editorial board. She is also on the ACAL executive committee.

attend the following meetings each year
- seven EC meetings which usually last a full day
- APIL’s annual general meeting and where necessary, other annual conferences
- EC meeting with SIG/regional group co-ordinators and secretaries (a full day)
(Members of the EC are asked to achieve a 75% attendance rate throughout the year)
attend and actively support EC sub-committees and policy working groups, which meet at various times of the year
act as an EC liaison with a specified APIL special interest group and attend meetings, whenever possible
contribute to the preparation of APIL responses to consultation papers
attend regional group meetings.

Shareholdings/directorships/partners or otherwise engaged in the management or control of claims management services, medical agencies and other organisations related to providing a service to the injured person, or in the field of personal injury.

I am a Director of ACAL (Association of Child Abuse Lawyers). This is a non-fee paying role.

Consultancies related to providing a service to the injured person, or in the field of personal injury.

N/A

Political organisations/societies/pressure groups/charities/trade unions.

I am not a member of a political party at present. I am a member of UNITE the Union but am not active in the union.

I am a Director of ACAL as above and serve on the Exec Committee.

Please provide details below of all interests that you have which may conflict with your role. This will include whether you or your employer have, or may in the future, receive any financial payment or other benefit from the areas covered in the activities above. In addition, you should also indicate whether any spouse, partner, colleague or family member may benefit from your involvement.

See above re ACAL but no financial payment received. My partner is a panel member of ACAL and a Fellow of APIL.

How to become an EC member

APIL elections take place on an annually basis and members who are elected to APIL’s Executive Committee volunteer to work as Directors of the Board.

The board and an experienced staff team work on a range of issues affecting our sector. Board members attend four meetings a year with the option of face to face or virtual attendance. The meetings usually last around 5 hours and cover a range of issues including legal reform, finance, and campaigns. It is an opportunity to be at the forefront of what is happening in the personal injury sector.

Election process:

APIL members may stand for election for the following:

Executive Committee (officers and additional officers)
Special Interest Group Co-ordinators
Regional Group Co-ordinators

Annual elections commence in early January for Officer and Additional Officer seats, notification of the election and the nomination process will be sent to members by e-mail.

An APIL member becomes a candidate as soon as they have completed the nomination pack and the nomination is supported by the proposer and seconder. The proposer and seconder will need to confirm their details online for the nomination to be valid. Candidates will be asked to complete four set questions in support of their candidature (APIL's chief executive shall have the power to edit or refuse to accept unlawful or factually incorrect details).

Each APIL member (fully paid up and eligible to vote) may nominate – one candidate and/or second one candidate, in each election. APIL’s secretary will not nominate or second candidates, but will remain eligible to vote.

The details of all candidates will be circulated together, by the APIL office, to either the full membership (for EC elections) or to the relevant membership sections (for SIG and Regional Group elections).

No additional written material, or electronic communications may be circulated and/or distributed by, and/or in support of, a candidate in any election.

Canvassing of any nature is not permitted. If additional material is found to be in circulation or, direct or indirect canvassing identified, APIL's Executive Committee reserves the right to withdraw the candidate from the elections.

* Members who are eligible to vote:

Legal Practitioner Members, Honorary Life Members or Academic Associates as defined in APIL's Articles of Association, article 30.1.1 and clause 4.5 of the APIL Membership Policy

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