Alistair Kinley

Experience

• I am responsible for BLM's engagement with government departments and regulators on policy and public affairs issues and consultations affecting the firm and its clients across the UK and Ireland.
• I led BLM’s activity in connection with the reform of the discount rate and the reviews of the European Motor Insurance Directive. I co-ordinated much of the firm’s work around implementation of the Insurance Act 2015.
• I was a member of the Civil Justice Council of England & Wales for 10 years until January 2016 (during which time I worked on various aspects of the Jackson reforms).
• I am a regular speaker and experienced commentator on legal and procedural reform. In addition, I write and edit BLM’s policy blog www.blmpolicyblog.com
• I am a member of the Ogden Working Party, which publishes official actuarial tables of multipliers for use in personal injury claims. I also edit the chapter on foreign claims in Bingham and Berrymans' Personal Injury and Motor Claims Cases and have acted as contributing editor to the Law Society’s Litigation Funding Handbook.

Membership/appointments

• Ogden Tables Working Party.
• BLM catastrophic injury group.