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APIL Officer - Kim Harrison

The staff report to an executive committee of elected APIL members, which is led by a team of officers comprising the president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer. Executive committee members work on a voluntary basis, tirelessly striving to achieve APIL’s objectives for the benefit of injured people.

The executive committee meets on a regular basis, usually four times annually.

Kim Harrison

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Role: Officer

Firm: SLATER & GORDON LAWYERS

Further details for Kim Harrison are displayed below.

Role Name
President Neil McKinley
Vice Presidents
Treasurer Jill Greenfield
Secretary John McQuater
Immediate Past President Sam Elsby
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Past Officers and EC members

I am a Principal Lawyer at Slater & Gordon in Manchester, specialising in acting for victims and survivors of physical and sexual abuse in civil claims, human rights cases and public inquiries, as well as representing families at Article 2 inquests. I am an accredited APIL Senior Litigator. I qualified as a solicitor in 2005 at Pannone LLP, for several years undertaking general PI work, coming to specialise in industrial disease/asbestos and abuse cases, and latterly heading up the actions against the police team. I was made a Partner in 2011 and following the merger with Slater & Gordon in February 2014 I became a Principal Lawyer in both their abuse and disease teams, gradually moving over to abuse work full time.

I am a member of the JPIL editorial board and the executive committee of ACAL (Association of Child Abuse Lawyers. At Pannone I became the PI Partner responsible for training and development and maintaining the firm’s APIL Accreditation. At Slater & Gordon I have developed and presented training sessions to new starters on all aspects of PI work and now regularly lecture on abuse and human rights issues externally and internally. From 2014-2015 I was a member of the firm’s Government and Media Relations Committee.

For APIL I have been part of the working group on CICA reform. I am a regular commentator on abuse and human rights issues in the media. I have written a number of case comments and articles on all aspects of PI litigation law and practice for LexisNexis, JPIL, PILJ and NLJ.

I can bring a strong commitment to education and training and through my proven track record of fighting for victims’ rights through the media and other lobbying I can be an effective and articulate voice for APIL members and their concerns.
  • 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.

I am on the Executive Committee of the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers (ACAL) and a Director of ACAL

Member of UNITE

Member of the Labour Party
  1. APIL members may stand for election for the following:
    • Executive Committee (officers and additional officers)
    • Special Interest Group Co-ordinators
    • Special Interest Group Secretaries
    • Regional Group Co-ordinators
    • Regional Group Secretaries
  2. Nominations shall be put forward to the APIL office at the appropriate time on the required form.
  3. Each APIL member (fully paid up and eligible to vote) may nominate – one candidate and/or second one candidate, in each election.
  4. APIL’s secretary will not nominate or second candidates, but will remain eligible to vote.
  5. An APIL member becomes a candidate as soon as he/she is nominated to stand in an election.
  6. Candidates will be asked to submit to the APIL office up to 300 words, including biographical details, in support of their candidature. APIL's chief executive shall have the power to edit or refuse to accept unlawful or factually incorrect details.
  7. 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).
  8. No additional written material, or electronic communications may be circulated and/or distributed by, and/or in support of, a candidate in any election.
  9. 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.
  10. Canvassing of any nature is not permitted by members who may be nominated for APIL's Annual Awards.

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