Psychiatric Injury
Sunday, 22 October 2006
By Peter Garsden Partner in Abney Garsden McDonald and Vice President of ACAL (Association of Child Abuse Lawyers) If an alien landed on Earth with abundant common sense, and was told that the English legal system imposed the following rules, then he would find it hard to believe, because these rules are more like legal
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AGM attend International Child Abuse Conference
Friday, 01 September 2006
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Coping with life
Friday, 01 September 2006
Solicitor Peter Garsden, founder member and Vice-President of ACAL (Association of Child Abuse Lawyers) examines the devastating and long-lasting effects of child abuse and how a survivor of abuse copes with life. “Whilst each survivor of abuse is unique, and his/her circumstances entirely different, I have learned over many years of dealing with child abuse
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How does a survivor of abuse feel?
Monday, 01 May 2006
My first case came along in 1994 from a former criminal client (I had been a Duty Solicitor then for 12 years) who told me that he was a victim of abuse in a care home called Greystone Heath in Warrington. The police had told him he ought to seek legal advice, but wouldn’t tell
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