Disclaimer

This site is not intended to give legal advice upon any matter.

No reliance should be made or action taken on the basis of any information contained within this website.

Persons intending to place any reliance upon anything said or disseminated by this website should seek independent legal advice upon the same and confirm its accuracy by their own independent legal advisers.

Law constantly changes and no website can be 100% certain of keeping up-to-date with the stream of legislation, changes to regulations and practice and procedure and the interpretation of case law by the courts. Law is often a question of interpretation and one person’s interpretation may differ from another.

For the sake of a simple and clear explanation we have stated what usually happens in reality in our experience rather than qualifying every statement made in this website with all the risks and exceptions that might occur.

When we are successful we almost invariably recover our costs from the other side. The Defendants employ specialist cost negotiators to scrutinise any claim for costs for technicalities so that they can avoid paying our costs.

This includes checking solicitor websites and then refusing to pay the costs for the initial interview on the basis that all the first meeting is “free”. We therefore make it clear that the initial interview that is “free” is the initial 5 – 10 minute assessment. It’s a technicality to ensure that we get paid by the other side. Thereafter the interview becomes part of your normal legal costs so we would be entitled to recover the same in the usual manner.

In virtually all our cases our client’s receive 100% of your damages and we work hard to ensure that this happens.

We technically retain the right to make deduction from your damages. This usually occurs when a client fails to attend an appointment for a medical examination without notice and we are charged a cancellation fee if our client does not reply to correspondence so that we cannot pursue their case to a conclusion or it becomes clear that our client has fabricated a significant part of their claim and it is unreasonable to expect either the other side or ourselves to pay for their case.

In most cases the other side pay all your expenses which are paid out during the case on your behalf which are known as “disbursements”. We do however reserve the right to be reimbursed for any of these expenses (disbursements) such as medical reports, court fees, insurance premiums etc. which we do not recover these from the other side. This could be either because the other side do not pay them or you are unsuccessful (but usually if you have legal expense insurance the policy will reimburse you/us even if you are unsuccessful).

The information contained on this web site does not replace the specific advice given orally or in writing to our own clients during the conduct of their cases.