Kim Harrison > Slater and Gordon > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile

Kim Harrison

0330 995 5338 kim.harrison@slatergordon.uk View profile

Work Department

Personal Injury: Abuse Law

Position

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), Manchester Arena Bombing Public Inquiry and the COVID-19 Public inquiry.

Career

Kim qualified as a solicitor in 2005.

Memberships

Kim is an APIL accredited Senior Litigator, an Executive Committee Member of the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers (ACAL), on the Executive Committee and Vice President of Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL).