Kim Harrison > Slater and Gordon > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile
Slater and Gordon Offices
58 MOSLEY STREET
MANCHESTER
M2 3HZ
England
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Kim Harrison
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).
Lawyer Rankings
North West > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
(Leading partners)Noted for its expertise in historic abuse claims and industrial disease cases, Slater and Gordon handles the full spectrum of personal injury issues for claimants. Madelene Holdsworth co-leads the team, utilising her expansive expertise in industrial disease and military injury, often advising on chemical poisoning, asbestos, and noise-induced hearing loss claims, while practice head Jordan Bell specialises in claims concerning both occupational and non-occupational asbestos exposure. Practice co-head Kim Harrison is an expert in abuse, often acting in public inquiries into child sexual abuse, while co-head Richard Scorer‘s primary areas of expertise are church and clerical abuse claims. Industrial disease specialist Pauline Chandler handles a range of bladder and nasal cancer cases, acting for both domestic and overseas clients, and Richard Crabtree is noted for his longstanding expertise in neurological trauma cases. Michael Hardacre has since left the practice.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners North West > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Personal injury: claimant North West > Insurance