Finding A Personal Injury Solicitor Now There Is No Legal Aid
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?
Legal aid befor the year 2000, 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. 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.
The British legal system would attempt to protest otherwise, but it’s a well known fact unfortunately, that the best levels of justice are only really available for those people who are mega rich! 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 you experienced an accident that 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. If you want your case taken on, on a ‘no win no fee’ agreement then you do have to have met and satisfied a certain criteria.
The relevant criteria that will be assessed in this regard are as follows:
The accident must not have been your fault.
Legal entity or another person (e.g. a company) must have been responsible for your accident. Liabiltiy arises usually through their breach of lack of care, duty and negligence towards you.
A loss has to have been suffered on your part in some way or other. 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. You will not be able to progress with your claim if you are unable to satisfy any of the criteria. Unless you are willing to instruct and pay them yourself 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. 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. When people have suffered an injury, which was not even their fault, and have suffered financially, then they have every right to try and recupe their money? For those who attempt to argue otherwise they would have to be vary mean spirited.e. our lovely Government)!