Sexual Abuse Conference 2024
Sexual Abuse Conference 2024
The 2024 abuse conference lived up, once, again, to the anticipated high expectations with an excellent range of speakers.
More than ever there is the recognition that survivors of abuse are entitled to access to justice and that means empowering them to achieve this.
This means ensuring that those who are in positions to help and advise survivors have up-to-date information on how services can be accessed to provide legal, medical, therapeutic support. Our speakers were able to explain how this can be done, and the issues that maybe encountered and how they can be overcome.
You can see the replay below:
You can navigate to individual talks by using the “Chapters” option on the video.
Key contacts
Alan Collins
Partner
Expertise:
- Abuse in Children Homes
- Abuse in Hospital & Healthcare
- Abuse in Religious Organisations
- Abuse in Schools by Teachers
- Abuse in Scouts or Cadets
- Abuse in Sport
- Child Migrants to Australia
- Jesus Army Redress
- Les Chenes Redress
- Military Sexual Abuse Claims
- Northern Ireland Redress
- Scotland Redress
- Sexual Abuse Claims
Alan Collins is one of the best known and most experienced solicitors in the field of child abuse litigation and has acted in many high profile cases, including the Jimmy Savile and Haut de la Garenne abuse scandals. Alan has represented interested parties before public inquiries including the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry, and IICSA (Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse).
Internationally, Alan works in Australia, South East Asia, Uganda, Kenya, and California representing clients in high profile sexual abuse cases. Alan also spoke at the Third Regional Workshop on Justice for Children in East Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok hosted by Unicef and HCCH (Hague Conference on Private International Law).
Kathleen Hallisey
Senior Associate
Expertise:
Kathleen Hallisey is a Senior Associate in the Abuse Team at Hugh James.
Originally from the US, she began her legal career in New York before moving to the UK and becoming a solicitor. Throughout her career, she has exclusively acted on behalf of claimants, including those who suffered catastrophic injuries on the road or at work, were dismissed from their jobs as a result of discrimination, or sexually assaulted on university campuses.
Danielle Vincent
Senior Associate
Danielle is a Senior Associate in the Abuse Specialist Personal Injury Department. She specialises in representing survivors of abuse and has experience in bringing claims against a number of institutions as well as individual abusers.
Mark Harvey
Partner
Head of Specialist Personal Injury
Expertise:
Mark Harvey is a Partner in the claimant division. He has obtained compensation for many individual victims of common but defective consumer products as well as victims of accidents overseas and arising out of travel generally.
Mark is the court appointed lead solicitor coordinating over 1,000 claimants in a group litigation order (GLO) arising out of the recall and health alert relating to the French manufacturer’s PIP silicone breast implants.
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