The KP Law Abuse and Exploitation legal team has the professional expertise and experience necessary to support survivors of sexual abuse.
Individuals who have suffered sexual abuse and exploitation, whether in a personal, professional, or institutional setting, and alongside other survivors, are entitled to seek justice and redress. KP Law has experience in matters involving large-scale, systemic, and institutional abuse, including cases involving single or multiple perpetrators.
Our specialist team has extensive knowledge of the legal and practical issues that commonly arise in these cases, including routes to redress and compensation, limitation periods, confidentiality, and evidential requirements. We understand the complexities involved in claims arising from institutional and group abuse, and the importance of approaching such matters with sensitivity, discretion, and care.
KP Law works on a trauma-informed basis, supporting our clients with sensitivity, confidentiality and an emphasis on putting their wellbeing first. We work closely with specialist barristers, psychologists, and forensic experts to build comprehensive cases that address both the factual circumstances of the abuse and the long-term psychological impact on survivors. We also have established close relationships with support networks, specialist charities and organisations who can also provide vital, non-legal support and help such as counselling.
In large-scale institutional claims, our specialist legal team will also examine whether businesses and organisations failed in their safeguarding duties, whether complaints were ignored or mishandled, and whether there were systemic issues that allowed abuse to continue unchecked. The aim is not only to secure justice and financial compensation, but also to achieve recognition for survivors and to hold everyone involved accountable.
Kingsley Hayes is a Partner at KP Law. He leads a passionate team that includes some of the most skilled lawyers in the country.
Emma is a Partner at KP Law with responsibility for some of the Firm’s most high-profile and high-value cases. She has significant experience in leading on large-scale complex claims across a broad range of sectors. Emma’s primary focus is on achieving justice and effective redress for all of our clients. She takes a pragmatic but considered approach, ensuring that each individual client’s needs are met throughout the litigation process whilst delivering efficient resolution.
Lucy has extensive experience acting for claimants from a diverse client base and has had significant involvement in developing high-value and complex claims across the firm’s various departments. She was recently named a finalist at the Women & Diversity in Law Awards. She is highly sensitive to clients’ needs, whilst not afraid to approach things differently.
KP Law is currently representing over 270 survivors to seek redress and justice for the systemic abused suffered in connection to Mohamed Al Fayed and Harrods. It is the only legal firm to have negotiated agreements with both the estate of the late Al Fayed (‘the Estate’) and Harrods, and have in place its own settlement mechanisms that offer a more trauma-informed, survivor-centred and protective alternative that directly addresses the concerns widely raised about the previous Harrods Redress Scheme.
The KP Law mechanisms put KP Law clients, not Harrods, or the Estate, in control, and, for the first time, gave survivors a meaningful choice in how they pursue the justice they deserve. In doing so, they addressed many of the criticisms levelled against the old scheme, and offer a structured, safeguarded and individually tailored pathway to redress in respect of one of the most significant instances of widespread abuse in modern times.
The serious allegations made against David Sullivan in the recent BBC Panorama ‘Predator: The Billionaire Football Boss’(aired on 8th June) are harrowing. Following an investigation by the BBC and The Times, the documentary highlights the experiences of multiple women who allege they were sexually exploited by Sullivan. These allegations span decades and indicate a systemic abuse of power by a wealthy individual which, sadly, closely reflects the experience of many survivors including the 270 clients KP Law represents who suffered abuse perpetrated by Mohamed Al-Fayed.
KP Law commends the bravery of those who have come forward to tell their stories. The KP Law team is on hand should survivors wish to understand the potential routes to redress available to them.
We use legal technology where it adds value. Our team deploys advanced tools to streamline complex processes, reduce costs and improve case strategy.
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Our litigators have successfully resolved disputes in the High Court, County Court, and through alternative dispute resolution in high profile and high value cases.
From early case assessment to managing high-volume data in document-heavy disputes, we use a developed operations team and technology to make litigation more efficient, transparent and effective.
Our legal team have litigated in high profile cases in the UK and USA, securing results for tens of thousands of clients in the UK and abroad.
This development comes despite Harrods previously stating that it accepted vicarious liability for the ‘despicable sexual abuse’ suffered by hundreds of survivors.This latest disclosure, on the day of the second anniversary of the documentary that highlighted the scale of the abuse by Fayed and his team of enablers, follows the
Disclosure of the true value comes as Harrods reports that its much criticised Redress Scheme only paid a total of £4.1m in compensation to just over 50 survivors in the year up to January 2026 and has only set aside £51.8m for all future claims. KP Law, which is representing
KP Law, the law firm representing more than 275 survivors in their abuse and exploitation claims against Harrods and the Estate of Mohamed Al Fayed, has today announced that it has formally written to the Metropolitan Police on behalf of clients affected by the disclosure of more than 140 survivors’
CORLA was founded by a group of law firms that are deeply committed to improving access to justice for claimants by way of collective redress.
We are a founding member of CORLA, alongside Edwin Coe, Hausfeld, Leigh Day, Milberg London and PGMBM.
