What will it cost me?

Overall usually nothing

In virtually all our cases if we are successful we recover damages and on top we recover our legal costs and legal expenses, so you receive 100% of your damages in your pocket.

We do not usually ask for money for expenses or legal costs up-front before the case is concluded (at which point they usually get paid by the other side’s insurance company) e.g. medical report £500.00, court fees £250.00 etc.

There are no hidden administrative charges, consumer credit interest payments on loans, exorbitant legal fees to come out of your damages.

If you are unsuccessful we will usually have worked on the basis of a No Win/No Fee agreement so if you lose you do not have to pay your (this firm’s) legal fees.

We will usually have arranged an “After the Event” legal expense insurance policy which covers you against paying the other side’s legal costs and usually reimburses us for your legal expenses. This means at worst you end up back at square one (zero i.e. but no debts for our fees or expenses or the other side’s legal costs.)

The exceptions:

Although virtually all our clients walk away without having to pay anything everyone wants to know what the exceptions are.
The exceptions are not a back door way so that you end up paying out of your damages and don’t think you are the “unlucky one ” who will be caught by the charges.

• The cases which tend to be exceptions are those where our client behaves so unreasonably that the other side does not have to pay
• The usual examples are where a person has made up the claim from start to finish or deliberately lied or exaggerated throughout.
• Alternatively they are responsible for things which have sabotaged their own claim or increased expense unnecessarily such as never replying to letters or not turning up for their own trials or medical examinations.
• Some cases are brought to us so late and/or are so poor that we cannot pursue them on a No Win/No Fee basis or get “After the Event” legal expense insurance. If our client still wishes to pursue them on such a basis then there is obviously some risk but we would discuss this at some length before going ahead.
• If you instruct us to commission a second medical expert because you disagree with an expert’s report then you may have to pay for the first unused report. (although this depends upon the validity of your reasons for disagreeing).
• Payment for medical treatment where treatment has been on the basis of payment at the end e.g. physio/osteopath treatment.
• This is not an exhaustive list.