September 18, 2023
Former Eastwood Park Detention Centre Officer, Patrick Devaney was sentenced on Friday 15 September at Bristol Crown Court to three and a half years imprisonment.
Caroline Chandler
SolicitorCaroline has worked in the legal sector for 23 years. She is a Solicitor in our Child Abuse Compensation department.
Child Abuse Compensation
Switalskis Solicitors Ltd
19 Cheapside
Wakefield
WF1 2SD
Caroline specialises in child abuse litigation including:
- Church abuse
- Institutional abuse with specialist experience
- Young offenders’ institutions
- Abuse in children’s homes
- Local authority negligence and breaches of the Human Rights Act
- Foster care abuse
- Actions against the police
Caroline is a Legal Aid supervising solicitor and a member of the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers.
APPROACH
Caroline is an experienced child abuse solicitor having worked in this area since 2000. Her caring and sensitive approach to her clients and determination to achieve justice for survivors has brought closure to many individuals who have been through the most horrendous abuse.
EXPERIENCE
Caroline has been the point of contact for the young offender institution complaints for the team, including Medomsley Detention Centre, Kirk Levington and Eastwood Park. She successfully negotiated the first non-adversarial scheme with the Ministry of Justice to compensate individuals who were mistreated during their sentence and continues to campaign for survivors of abuse.
“I would like to take this opportunity to say how well Caroline Chandler has handled my application with efficiency and sensitivity from start to finish. It has been very difficult to have to rehash the past after all these years, but I do understand what a major job it has been for all concerned.”
Child Abuse Compensation Client
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