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About

Provided by Kim Harrison

UK

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Kim Harrison is a principal lawyer and head of operations for the abuse department at Slater and Gordon. She acts for clients in civil claims against organisations and institutions where abuse has taken place including religious organisations, the Scouts, the military, the NHS, schools, care homes and sports clubs of all kinds. She has particular expertise in advising clients in suing in both negligence and human rights for ‘failure to protect’ cases representing children in cases against Local Authorities. She has acted for a large number of clients abused by the football coach Barry Bennell. Alongside her civil work she has also developed significant Inquiries and Inquests expertise, having advised and represented clients at a number of Article 2 Inquests and also in the Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).

In addition, Kim is also representing a number of the bereaved families of the Manchester Arena Bombing Inquiry and core participants in the Covid-19 Public Inquiry.

Career

Kim qualified as a solicitor in 2005.

Professional Memberships

Kim is an APIL accredited Senior Litigator, an Executive Committee Member of the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers (ACAL), on the Executive Committee of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and also a former member of the JPIL (Journal of Personal Injury Law) Editorial Board.

Publications

As an expert on abuse law, human rights and inquiry and inquest work, Kim is frequently asked to speak on legal issues and has given many interviews to the local and national media. She has appeared on BBC Breakfast, the Daily Politics show, Radio 4 and Newsnight, and a number of her cases have also appeared in the local and national press.

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