Slater and Gordon

Pauline Chandler

Pauline is a Principal Lawyer at Slater and Gordon in Manchester. She has specialised in industrial accident and disease claims for more than 40 years.During her career she has helped thousands of clients recover compensation for mesothelioma, asbestos and other industrial diseases.These have included bladder cancer from chemicals, nasal cancer from wood dust and other skin and lung diseases caused by chemicals and irritant dusts at work.Pauline has pursued some high profile and important and ground-breaking industrial disease cases, such as Knox & Others-v-Cammell Laird known as the "Welders Lung" case and several other Court of Appeal cases that have changed the law for asbestos victims and are frequently relied on and referred to as precedents in other disease claim judgements. Such judgements include: Owen-v-IMI Yorkshire Copper Tube; Jeromson-v-Shell Tankers; Furness-v-Massey; McCamley-v-Cammel Laird; Johnson-v-Reed Corrugated Cases; Sabin-v-British Rail; Cookson-v-Novartis Grimsby; and Spillett-v-Carillion.In addition she has successfully pursued numerous nasal cancer and asbestos cases that other solicitors abandoned because they could not find the relevant employers’ liability insurers.

Kim Harrison

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.

Richard Scorer

Richard is a Principal Lawyer and Head of Abuse Law and Public Inquiries. He has many years’ experience dealing with serious injury and child abuse cases, acting for victims in high profile cases such as Jimmy Savile, the child sexual exploitation scandal in Rochdale, John Worboys and the football abuse cases. He has particular expertise in cases involving abuse in religious organisations such as the Catholic Church, the Church of England, mosques and gurdwaras. He acted for a large number of victims and survivors in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA), has taken cases to the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, and has achieved many landmark settlements. Richard writes and lectures widely on abuse law and public inquiries and is a regular media commentator. Richard’s book ‘Betrayed: The English Catholic Church and the Sex Abuse Crisis’ was published in 2014. He also co-authored the APIL Guide to Child Abuse Compensation Claims, third edition published in 2020. He was a Chapter contributor to Justice for Children: A developmental approach published by Royal College of Psychiatrists/CUP in 2019. In addition to his legal work he holds a visiting research fellowship at the University of Kent, where he leads an international review of legal and policy responses to abuse in religious settings. Richard wrote the book ‘Betrayed: The English Catholic Church and the Sex Abuse Crisis’ which was published in 2014. He also co-authored the APIL Guide to Child Abuse Compensation Claims published in 2011. Chapter contributor to Justice for Children: A developmental approach published by Royal College of Psychiatrists/CUP in 2019.