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No Legal Aid, So How To Find Personal Injury Solicitors?
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Before the year 2000, legal aid was available for personal injury claims. However, as with many areas of law, 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. The result of this is that personal injury solicitors have had to find another way of ensuring that people who are unable to afford such a claim, can still have an access to justice.
As unfortunate as it sounds and despite the fact that most people who are connected to the British legal systems would attempt to protest otherwise, the best levels of justice are only ever available for the super rich! 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, stop it they have. So, where does this leave you when you have experienced an accident that was not your fault? What personal injury solicitors will take on your case if you do not have access to the necessary funds it will take to pay them for their service?
This is where personal injury solicitors have boxed very clever and devised a way around the Governments cruel lack of compassion in this regard. This is because if you are able to satisfy certain criteria, you will have a strong likelihood of being able to have your case taken on through a no win no fee agreement.
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) must have been responsible for your accident. 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. This could be through pain and suffering or some direct financial loss that you are entitled to be compensated for.
If the above criteria can be identified successfully, you would be far more likely of securing personal injury solicitors that will take your case on. 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.
Personal injury solicitors are filling in a void that opened up in the legal system when legal aid was stopped. A lot of people feel that such companies are trying to profit from other peoples misfortune and perhaps there are some firms where this is true. 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? It would be a very mean spirited person who attempted to argue otherwise (i.e. our lovely Government)!
As unfortunate as it sounds and despite the fact that most people who are connected to the British legal systems would attempt to protest otherwise, the best levels of justice are only ever available for the super rich! 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, stop it they have. So, where does this leave you when you have experienced an accident that was not your fault? What personal injury solicitors will take on your case if you do not have access to the necessary funds it will take to pay them for their service?
This is where personal injury solicitors have boxed very clever and devised a way around the Governments cruel lack of compassion in this regard. This is because if you are able to satisfy certain criteria, you will have a strong likelihood of being able to have your case taken on through a no win no fee agreement.
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) must have been responsible for your accident. 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. This could be through pain and suffering or some direct financial loss that you are entitled to be compensated for.
If the above criteria can be identified successfully, you would be far more likely of securing personal injury solicitors that will take your case on. 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.
Personal injury solicitors are filling in a void that opened up in the legal system when legal aid was stopped. A lot of people feel that such companies are trying to profit from other peoples misfortune and perhaps there are some firms where this is true. 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? It would be a very mean spirited person who attempted to argue otherwise (i.e. our lovely Government)!
Author Resource:
If you have suffered a personal injury or Brain Injury, then the best Brain Injury Solicitor can be found at glplaw.com
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