PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Our expertise is our passion
Professional accreditations give you the assurance that the solicitor you are instructing is a specialist in their field. We are serious injury specialists. This means that we have the expertise to represent clients and their families in complex and catastrophic injury claims.
As specialists, we bring not only legal expertise but a wider knowledge of the care, rehabilitation and medical issues that can make the vital difference to our clients as well as a deep empathy gained through years of experience.
Our professional accreditations and panel memberships include
Clinical Negligence "Quality Mark"
Goodmans Law is one of the few firms in England and Wales to have been awarded the Legal Services Quality Mark for Clinical Negligence.
This is a specialist contract, subject to a national tender and audit process in which firms must demonstrate not only a high standard of competence but also a quality approach.
As a Quality Mark provider, Goodmans Law can offer public funding (formerly legal aid) for eligible clients.
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL)
Accreditation by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers is an "independent kitemark" of competence and specialist expertise for personal injury solicitors.
It gives you assurance that the solicitor has achieved a specific level of expertise and is committed to high professional standards.
Goodmans Law holds both corporate and individual accreditation of APIL.
Carol Hopwood, Director and Head of Serious Injuries at Goodmans Law is a Senior Litigator Member of APIL.
Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA)
Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) is the independent charity which promotes better patient safety and justice for people who have been affected by a medical accident.
AvMA is one of only two recognised "panels", or "approved lists", of solicitors who have been assessed as being specialists in Medical Negligence.
There is a stringent application process and only those able to demonstrate expertise at the very highest level are approved to join AvMA's panel.
Panel members have to reapply for accreditation every 5 years, demonstrating the required standard of legal expertise, medical knowledge and empathy with the feelings and needs of people who have been harmed by negligent treatment
Brain Injury Accreditation and Panel Memberships
Brain Injury Group
The Brain Injury Group is a national network of bespoke brain injury lawyers, representing covering 64 constituencies across England and Wales.
The group aims to bring the country's top brain injury specialists together as a single forum, working holistically with other professionals and specialists to ensure that clients and their families have access to all of the support they need.
Goodmans Law is the appointed law firm for the whole of Liverpool, Ormskirk and Southport.
Headway, The Brain Injury Association
Headway is a national charity which exists to help and support people affected by brain injury.
Goodmans Law is a member of Headway - the brain injury association Personal Injury Solicitors List, which includes most of the UK's leading firms in the field of brain injury. It provides a choice of legal advisor by locality.
Goodmans Law is a Level 1 corporate member of Headway, the highest available level of accreditation.
Child Brain Injury Trust
The Child Brain Injury Trust is the leading voluntary sector organisation (registered charity and company limited by guarantee) providing non-medical services to families affected by the childhood acquired brain injury across the UK.
Brain injury has a devastating impact on children and their families. The Child Brain Injury Trust maintains a directory of legal professionals who have the necessary experience to act in such complex cases. Goodmans Law is an approved panel member.
Group B Strep Support Group
Group B Strep Support Group (GBSS) is a national charity offering support and assistance to families affected by Group B Streptococcus; the most common cause of life-threatening infection in new-born babies.
Whilst most babies who contract the infection recover, 10% of all babies who contract the infection will die and another 5% will suffer brain damage which can result in learning difficulties, developmental delay and behavioural disorders.
In 2011, Christian Beadell, Associate Solicitor with Goodmans Law was appointed to the legal panel of approved solicitors.
