Personal Injury

Personal injury covers road traffic accidents, accidents at work, tripping and slipping claims, medical negligence, industrial diseases, repetitive strain injury, vibration white finger, product liability, dental claims, stress claims in the workplace, accidents when on holiday.

Costs

Firstly we provide you with a free interview at our offices or at your home if you are too disabled to attend at our offices yourself. We do however offer wheelchair access to our appointment rooms.

The following funding options are then open to you:

1. Conditional Fee Agreement

WE CHARGE YOU NOTHING WIN OR LOSE.

If we take your case on you will not be asked to pay us anything at all. No hidden extras. You will receive your compensation intact.

If however you mislead or are uncooperative we reserve the right to terminate the agreement and demand payment of costs accrued at that point.

Prior to entering into a conditional fee agreement, it is important that you check to see whether or not any insurance policy you may have includes a legal expenses indemnity clause. Read your motor insurance or household insurance policy. Often you will find hidden in there somewhere a section relating to "legal expenses" telling you that you qualify for free legal advice. Some credit card companies offer this facility too. When you come to us for the first time please bring those documents along and we will check them for you. However, beware. To find out more, check out our "legal expenses" link.

To protect you against the possibility of losing and thereby paying the other side's costs, we can arrange insurance for you at no cost to you. However, at the end of your case indemnity insurers may deduct a sum from your compensation and the amount varies according to the Insurer. Some indemnity insurers make no deduction at all. We make it clear that we have no personal interest in the Insurer you choose or we choose on your behalf and we receive no commission from any indemnity insurer.

2. Legal Expenses Insurance

3. Private Paying

4. Small Claims Court

Finally it's important to note that if your injury is so slight that you're unlikely to recover more than £1,000.00 for that injury then the Small Claims Court will deal with your claim.

It's rare in such circumstances for Solicitors to recover costs from the other side (the loser) and as we would not wish to charge you, then it is unlikely that we would be able to assist you. Small Claims Courts are set up to facilitate the public itself bringing small claims through the Courts informally.

District Judges have a responsibility and duty to ensure that both parties are on the same equal footing so that if your opponent employs a lawyer because that opponent is eg an insurance company and can afford a lawyer then a District Judge must assist you at Hearings.

Do not assume without checking with us, that your particular injury is unlikely to incur compensation beyond the Small Claims Court ceiling of £1,000.00. Check with us first.