No Legal Aid, So How To Find Personal Injury Solicitors?
META: Despite the fact legal aid is no longer available in such cases, a personal injury solicitor may still be able to assist you on a ‘no win, no fee’ basis. Make every effort to secure representation in this way, if you feel you have a strong case?
Before the year 2000, legal aid was available for personal injury claims. However, as with many areas of law, especially such things as head injury compensation etc, personal injury claims were becoming more and more costly to the UK tax payer and as a consequence, the Government felt obliged to cut off such access to people. Ensuring people who are unable to afford such a claim and can still have an access to justice, as meant that another method has, had to be found.
If you are fortunate enough to be super rich, then the best levels of justice are available for you; unfortunately, as mean as this sounds most people associated to the British legal systems know this, even though they would protest otherwise! Deep down, we already know that this is absolutely true. If the Government were ever trying to argue against this fact, they would never have stopped legal aid for personal injury cases in the first place.
But, this has been stopped. So, when an accident was not your fault, where does this actually leave you? Having your case taken on by a personal injury solicitor may be difficult if you do not have the necessary funds to pay them for their service?
This is where a personal injury solicitor would have boxed very clever and devised a way around the Government’s cruel lack of compassion in this regard. You will have a strong case of a ‘no win no fee’ agreement if you satisfy a certain criteria.
The relevant criteria that will be assessed in this regard are as follows:
The accident must not have been your fault.
Another person or legal entity (e.g. a company) an accident they must have been responsible for. This liability would usually arise through their own negligence or through a breach of their duty of care towards you.
There must have been a loss suffered on your part in some way. Financial loss, pain and suffering could mean you are entitled to be compensated for.
Securing personal injury solicitors that will take your case on is difficult, but it is possible if the above criteria can be identified successfully. If you are unable to satisfy any of the criteria, you will not be able to progress with a claim. Unless you are willing to instruct and pay them yourself accordingly. Your chances of success of winning the case, even then,needs to be made clear right from the start.
When legal aid was stopped personal injury solicitors had to find a way of filling this void in the legal system. Other people’s misfortune can be other people’s gain, and it is true to say, that there are some companies out there who are simply trying to make profit out of this. However, when people have been injured and have experienced financial loss as a result, surely they have every right to try and get back some of that money, especially when it was not their fault? Mean spirited are those people who attempt to argue otherwise.e. our lovely Government)!
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