A Somerset lawyer who is dedicated to fighting for the rights of injured, vulnerable, and disabled people has been appointed to a top role at a national campaign group.
Erin Darling-Finan has become a junior member of the executive committee at not-for-profit organisation APIL (the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers).
APIL campaigns on behalf of bereaved families and people injured due to negligence, and has members across the UK.
Erin said: “I am passionate about making sure all victims of negligence have access to justice when, at their lowest, they need help the most. I specialise in working with vulnerable or disabled people who have been injured through no fault of their own.”
She has successfully countered defendants' attempts to blame her clients' vulnerabilities for their injuries. In one case, she represented a blind man injured by a hazard, where the defendant argued it was not foreseeable for a blind person to be in the area.
Erin works as a personal injury executive for Amicus Law Solicitors in Ilminster, where she set up the firm’s personal injury department from scratch.
Erin said: “The people APIL members help have suffered serious, often life-changing injuries. They have had the lives as they know them destroyed. The one thing these people wish above all else is that the terrible injuries they have suffered had never happened, and that they could go back to their old live.”
Erin will work on a range of issues affecting the personal injury sector and injured people, including legal reforms and APIL’s campaigns.