Headway is a charity that aims to promote understanding of all aspects of brain injury; and to provide information, support and services to people with a brain injury, their family and carers. One way in which they achieve this is by running
Action for Brain Injury Week which this year will be held between 31st March and 6th April.
Towards the end of 2007, Headway commissioned a survey to explore the life experiences of people since suffering their brain injury. The survey, which was prepared in conjunction with the clinical neuropsychology team at the University of Exeter, aimed to uncover what people with brain injuries really think and feel, from how they feel about their brain injury to how they are treated by society. It also looked at personal relationships and how they may have changed since the brain injury. During Action for Brain Injury Week Headway will be aiming to raise the general public's awareness of the challenges people with brain injuries face in their everyday lives, as well as highlighting the social prejudices they have to endure.
Child Brain Injury Legal Group
As members of the
Child Brain Injury Legal Group lawyers at
Leigh Day & Co are familiar with the devastating effects of
brain injury on both the person who has suffered the injury, and on their families or carers. We give financial support to two charities, the
Child Brain Injury Trust and the
British Institute for Brain Injured Children, both of whom specialise in providing support and advice to the families of children with brain injuries. We are delighted to be able to offer this help, last summer the firm organised a dragon boat race which raised over £6,000 for CBIT.
Action for Brain Injury Week is supported by a number of other charities with whom Leigh Day & Co has a close working relationship such as
Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA).
Leigh Day & Co is a member of Headway's personal injury solicitors list and the Child Brain Injury Legal Group and thus is recognised as a firm that has the appropriate specialist expertise for dealing with brain injury claims. The causes of brain injury are varied. Solicitors at Leigh Day have represented clients who have been injured
- as a result of a medical accident
- after being involved in a road traffic crash
- after being injured in an accident at work
- during labour
The
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has published a code of best practice on rehabilitation and specialist brain injury lawyers at Leigh Day & Co endorse the use of this code to ensure that our brain injured clients get the maximum amount of early rehabilitation to allow optimum recovery prospets wherever this is possible.
The firm also represents the best interests of clients who are brain-injured and who are seeking appropriate services from social services, education authorities and the NHS.
If you would like to speak to a lawyer about a possible claim please contact
Sally Moore, head of the accidents and disasters team on 020 7650 1200 or
Frances Swaine, head of the human rights department on 020 7650 1200.
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