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APIL otherwise known as the
Association of
Personal Injury Lawyers was founded to help the
victims of accidents, or those who become ill through no
fault of their own.
They are an independent and not for profit
organisation.
They campaign for improvements in
personal injury
law such as amendments to legislation and ensuring
that all victims have access to justice.
They also aim to promote fair compensation for all
victims and alert the public to hazards and so aim
increase safety standards across all walks of life.
APIL also provides its members with support,
training, information and also gets actively involved in
press and parliamentary campaigns.
They have recently published “An Agenda For Injured
People”.
This has three key features.
Prevention
Fair Redress
Fair Debate
Prevention deals with those who are
injured through an
accident at work, and how to impose health and
safety duties on directors of companies. It being felt
that imposing such duties on company directors will
improve the accountability of a company for the safety
of each and every employee. Thus ensuring that health
and safety at work is taken seriously and so hopefully
the number of deaths and injury at work will reduce.
Fair Redress aims to give all
victims fair and full redress. Both through the
compensation that they may hope to receive but also
through their own choice of independent legal
representation.
Fair Debate encourages all of those
involved in health, safety, negligence and compensation
from all sides to get involved in debate about the
issues affecting all those victims of
injury or illness
caused by accidents.
APIL have devised an accreditation scheme to identify
personal injury lawyers who meet their high standards of
excellence. Winston Solicitors are proud to be part of
the accredited practice scheme.
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