Membership Details & Application Form

If you would like to join us please note the membership rates. For more detail click here.

For details of the client referral rules click here

Student Members £40 pa. (See Fees page for more detail)
Non-Practising Members eg Experts £85 p.a. (See Fees page for more detail)
Sole Practitioners, Counsel etc. £85 p.a. (See Fees page for more detail)
Firms <5 Partners £100 p.a.(See Fees page for more detail)
Other Solicitor members £150 p.a. (See Fees page for more detail)
Panel Membership Fee £500 (See Fees page for more detail)

There are 2 methods of joining:-

EITHER :You can submit your details online by using the form below

OR : Print off a form and mail it to us at the address given below Lawyer Member Form

Expert Member Form

Membership Application Form

NB. Some of these questions are aimed at Personal Injury solicitors. If any of the questions do not apply to you, please leave them blank or answer them as well as you can. Other questions (where marked with an asterisk *) are for other professions ("Expert/Professional Members")

First Name
Last Name
Profession
Firm Name/Organisation
Street Address
Town/City
County/State/Province
Postal Code/Zip
Phone (Daytime)
Email Address
Are you a member of	APIL? AVMA? Other? If so please state the name(s)
Length of time doing P.I. work	Years
Position in Organisation
What other types of work do you do?
Experience in cases brought on behalf of a survivor of abuse? (Briefly)
Experience in similar types of cases? ie Family Mental Health work, Child Care, Education, Cases against Local Authorities (Briefly)
* Expert Qualifications and experience *
Membership of Associations involved in the sphere of Child Abuse/Work with the mentally handicapped
Relevant Courses attended or articles/books written (For Experts we are interested in Report writing and courtroom skills )
Solicitors ONLY I agree to support the Aims of ACAL (full copy of Memorandum And Articles of Association available on request) & abide by the Code of Good Practise which I have read. I confirm that I work predominately on behalf of Plaintiffs in civil litigation cases/CICA cases

Please tick one of the following boxes. To remind you the membership rates are:-

Student Member	£40 per annum
Expert, Sole Practitioner or Counsel Member	£85 per annum
Solicitor < 5 Partner	£100 per annum
Solicitor > 5 Partners	£150 per annum

ACAL, Suite 5, Claremont House, 22-24 Claremont Road, Surbiton, KT6 4QU : DX 57714 Surbiton 1: Tel. +44 208 390 4701 (10.00 -1.00pm & 2pm - 4pm. Tuesdays and Thursdays only) Fax +44 20 8399 1152 Email info@childabuselawyers.com