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?
Lega aid was available for personal injury claims before the year 2000. 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! This is absolutely true and deep down we all know this already. 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, where does this leave you when you have experienced an accident that was not your fault? If you do not have the necessary funds to pay for their services then what personal injury solicitor will take on your case?
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. A breach of their duty or care to you would normally come about from their own negligence and this is where liability comes in.
There must have been a loss suffered on your part in some way. You are entitled to be compensated through pain and suffering or some financial loss.
Your case is far more likely to be secured by a personal injury solicitor 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. That is unless you are willing to instruct the personal injury solicitors yourself and pay them accordingly. Even then, they should be clear about your chances of success with the case from the very start.
Filling the void in the legal system had to be done when legal aid was stopped and personal injury solicitors have done this. A lot of people feel that such companies are trying to profit from other people’s misfortune and perhaps there are some firms where this is true. Trying to get some money back is every individuals right especailly, when they have suffered an injury whereby they have experienced financial loss. It’s even worse when the accident was not your fault? It would be a very mean spirited person who attempted to argue otherwise (i.e. our lovely Government)!
