Press room

Press room

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 a SafetyWatch campaign which is designed to alert people, through the press, to potential hazards.

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...

• Set up interviews with our members, both nationally and locally
• Issue press releases and statements
• Provide general comment
• Arrange comment pieces
• Provide background briefings

Latest press releases

		Solicitor in Belfast leads fight for the rights of injured people
	Solicitor in London leads fight for the rights of injured people
Families to be held hostage under birth injury scheme    A “crude” redress scheme for injured and brain damaged babies will pressurise families out of pursuing funds they desperately need for long-term care, lawyers warn. APIL has responded to a Department of Health consultation on a proposed voluntary ‘rapid resolution and redress scheme’ to provide compensation for children injured during childbirth because of failures in care. “It is the most heartbreaking of circumstances for new parents to discover their baby girl or boy has sustained catastrophic injuries from which he or she will never recover, and which could and should have been avoided,” said Brett Dixon, president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL).

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Statements

Letters to the press

Currently in the news

“Frenzied insurance industry rhetoric following the correction [to the discount rate] is designed to hide the fact that insurers have enjoyed a windfall in recent years at the expense of people whose lives have been shattered," said APIL president Neil Sugarman... ...The number of new clinical negligence claims against the NHS has fallen by eight per cent in the last three years... ... APIL urges for spam calls and texts about personal injury claims to be banned. Proposed whiplash reforms are "looking down the wrong end of the telescope".   For more information on any of these issues, contact Jane Hartwell on 0115 943 5416, email jane.hartwell@apil.org.uk.