Earlier this year, our Military Injury team hosted and presented a conference about when service personnel might need legal support for military injury. Key military charities and contacts were invited to the conference, which took place virtually.
Carol Purang, the hearing loss specialist from our Military Injury team in Manchester opened the conference. Her presentation was on time limits, and when to start thinking about bringing legal action in noise claims, and other similar military personal injury claims such as non-freezing cold injuries (NFCI).
Carol covered some case study examples of where clients might run into difficulties on time limits, and how to avoid this by approaching solicitors early.
Carol also spoke about the Ajax Armoured Vehicle Programme hearing loss claims. In the last 12 months, we’ve been instructed by a number of military personnel to investigate how they’ve been left with hearing loss and tinnitus after working on the programme.
Our representation of clients who worked on these vehicles demonstrates how we support service personnel, guide them through a difficult process, and hopefully ensure that mistakes like this don’t happen again.
Other speakers and topics were as follows:
- Ayse Ince, associate in our medical negligence department, who tackled the difficult topic of suicides and mental health
- Tom Banks, barrister at 12 King’s Bench Walk and former soldier in Afghanistan, who presented on inquests and the Armed Forces
- Dave Grimshaw, our head of external communications and PR, who followed with inquests and the media
- Andrew Buckham, partner, and Stephanie Clark, solicitor, both from our Southampton office, who presented an inquest case study and spoke about off-duty accidents
- Amanda Marsh, partner, who covered the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS)
- Lee Johnston, families programme co-ordinator for the Regular Forces Employment Association (RFEA), and Rich Jones, national veterans employment manager for the RFEA, gave an outside view of the support available to help veterans back into employment.
The conference aimed to present a layman’s guide to service personnel and relevant charity contacts to when they might want to seek legal help.
The attendees included various welfare officers, social workers, and directors of Armed Forces charities and organisations, along with some veterans.
We offered a question-and-answer follow-up after the event, and those with queries were contacted and offered advice and support. If you feel you may have a suffered from any of the injuries mentioned here, or think there’s someone who we might be able to help, please get in touch with the team.
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