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. Another way of accessing justice has had to be found by personal injury solicitors as a result of this, otherwise some people would never be able to afford to try and make a claim.

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? 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. 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) 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.

Securing personal injury solicitors that will take your case on is difficult, but it is possible 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. That is unless you are willing to instruct the personal injury solicitors yourself and pay them accordingly. Even then, you need to know from the start what your chances are of winning the case.

When legal aid was stopped personal injury solicitors had to find a way of filling this void in the legal system. 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)!