Solicitor's List Application Form

For full details of the rules of the "Solicitor's List" see the membership fees page. It is intended that only those solicitor's on the "Solicitor's List" will receive referrals through ACAL head office - see details for contact below

There are 2 methods of filling in an application form.

EITHER you can print off a form and send it to us by post or fax. The form appears in either Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat format NB you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view - follow this link if you want to download it free of charge), . Click either icon below to open the program in question. You can then either save the form to your hard disc or simply print it off.

Application Form (Microsoft Word) (Adobe Acrobat Reader)

OR you can submit the form below online

Solicitor's List Application Form

MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA

The ACAL Executive Committee has formed a sub committee to consider the admission of all new applicants to the Solicitors’ Referral Scheme together with those existing members who wish to renew their membership of the Scheme.
(a) The sub committee shall be composed of the President, the Vice President and the Treasurer who shall be advised/supplied with the relevant papers by the Co-ordinator at the time when each applicant applies to join the Referral Scheme or renews his/her membership of the Referral Scheme.

(b) The sub committee shall briefly discuss each new application/renewal by email, telephone or at a meeting.

(c) The decision to admit a solicitor shall be at the sole discretion of the sub-committee who shall if they refuse the application, give written reasons for their decision to the unsuccessful applicant. There is no appeal against their decision but it is open to any applicant to re-apply in the following year. The criteria for joining the Solicitors’ List can be found on the Membership section and is set out below.
Membership of the Solicitor’s List will enable the successful applicant to be referred to potential clients who contact ACAL. One of ACAL’s roles is to ‘signpost’ legal services for members of the public and the details in this application form may be provided to callers to the ACAL office to allow them to make an informed choice as to which lawyer to contact and instruct. ACAL may also publish and distribute the information gathered for the establishment of the Solicitor’s List in order to raise awareness of the scheme among members of the public.
Applicants are referred to the Solicitors List training criteria set out on our website. All members must commit to one day’s training each year. They must attend Part 1 and Part 2 Introduction to Child Abuse within the first three years of their membership and thereafter in each succeeding year the Practitioners Workshop. If a member of the Solicitors List is unable to attend any of the training courses in a particular year, they should notify the ACAL office. In those circumstances, they will be asked to pay the relevant fee for a course and will be sent a copy of the notes to read. However non attendance at an ACAL course will not be excused in the following year and that member will not be re-admitted onto the Solicitors’ List.
If for whatever reason, there are insufficient people to attend Part 1 and Part 2 Introduction to Child Abuse, new members must commit to spending five hours reading the notes and completing a CPD form. Questions will be set from 1st March 2006 onwards for members to complete and send to the ACAL office.
All questions must be answered in full and legibly, and the declaration at the end of the form must be signed. Incomplete or unsigned applications will be returned.
The application must be accompanied by a cheque for £500.00 to help cover ACAL’s administration expenses and the costs in running the signposting scheme. Cheques should be crossed and made payable to “The Association of Child Abuse Lawyers”. The cheque is non-refundable.
Payment of the cheque and successful completion of the application form will entitle the applicant to receive referrals for one year.
Should any further space for answers be required, please continue on a separate A4 piece of paper but ensure that these are cross-referenced and clearly marked.
The completed paper application form should be sent to: ACAL, Suite 5, Claremont House, 22-24 Claremont Road, Surbiton, KT6 4QU : DX 57714 Surbiton 1 and marked “Solicitor’s List Application”.

Those fields marked with * are compulsory and must be filled in before the form can be submitted

ABOUT YOU
Title
First Name(s) *	*
Last Name *	*
Email Address *	*
Job Title (eg Partner, Associate etc)
Date of Qualification
Solicitor's Roll No.
Date of Membership of Law Society PI Panel (if appropriate)
Other Relevant Qualifications
Other Relevant Memberships
ABOUT YOUR FIRM
Firm Name *	*
Firm Address
Tel. No.
Fax No.
DX Number (if applicable)
How many other fee earners in your firm deal with claims for the survivors of abuse?
Approximately how many live child abuse cases are you dealing with at the moment?
Approximately how many child abuse cases are your firm dealing with currently?
TRAINING & OTHER ISSUES
Please confirm dates when you attended:-
ACAL Intro. Child Abuse Part 1*	*
ACAL Intro. Child Abuse Part 2 *	*
Please list any other training courses that you have attended in the last 3 years which have specific relevance to dealing with child abuse claims.
Please list any publications/ articles you have had published relating to child abuse claims.
Please list courses or lectures you have given relating to child abuse claims
DECLARATION
I confirm that the answers I have given to the above questions are true and accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief.	*
I understand that the information given in this form may be published by ACAL and/ or disseminated to members of the public seeking representation in a compensation claim, and I expressly authorise ACAL to provide this information to such people, as they deem appropriate	*
In order to further my membership of the Solicitor’s List, I undertake to attend the annual practitioner’s workshop in the year March 2004/ 2005 [Please delete if you have already attended the annual practitioner’s workshop as at the time of signing this form]	*

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