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Alison Millar

020 7650 1200 amillar@leighday.co.uk

Work Department

Human rights.

Position

Alison Millar works in the human rights department at Leigh Day, where she is the Head of Abuse claims, leading a specialist team conducting claims for adult survivors of non-recent sexual or physical abuse in childhood and claims for abuse, mistreatment and neglect of vulnerable adults and children. 

Clients Alison and her team have represented include:

• A man who received over £500,000 compensation for sexual abuse by a teacher at his boarding school.
• People with learning disabilities who were treated at the private Hospital, Winterbourne View, which was closed following the revelation by BBC Panorama of systemic abuse of patients there by staff.
• Men who were sexually assaulted by a nurse in the course of routine sexual health checks at a sexual health clinic in Soho, London.
• A young girl who was repeatedly sexually assaulted by two classmates in the playground of her primary school.
• A group of police officers who were sexually assaulted by a police doctor in the course of pre-employment medical examinations.
• Over 30 former residents of Lambeth children’s homes in applications under the Lambeth Children’s Homes Redress Scheme.

Alison and her team have represented a number of Core Participants and witnesses at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).

In 2019, Alison provided a Rule 9 Inquiries Act statement for the IICSA Accountability and Reparations Investigation and was subsequently invited to give oral evidence at IICSA in 5 sessions over 3 days.

Alison has regularly commented in the media.  She and her team have strong links with charities and non-government organisations including Islington Survivors Network, NAPAC (the National Association for People Abused in Childhood), the Reducing Restrictive Intervention and Safeguarding Children campaign group and The Care Leavers Association.

Career

Called 1995; completed pupillage and practised as a tenant 2 Crown Office Row Chambers (now 4 New Square); qualified as a solicitor 2000; trained Leigh Day; partner 2006 to date.

Memberships

Association of Child Abuse Lawyers; Liberty.