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. Representation in this way, should be secured if you feel you have a strong case?

Before the year 2000, legal aid 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.

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! We already know that deep down 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, stop it they have. So, when you experienced an accident that was not your fault, where does this actually leave you? 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 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. Financial loss, pain and suffering could mean 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. Progressing with your claim means you have to be able to satisfy the criteria, if you can’t do this, then you do not have much chance. That is unless you are willing to instruct the personal injury solicitors yourself and pay them accordingly. Your chances of success of winning the case, even then,needs to be made clear right from the start.

Filling the void in the legal system had to be done when legal aid was stopped and personal injury solicitors have done this. A lot of people feel that such companies are trying to profit from other people’s misfortune and perhaps there are some firms where this is true. Trying to get some money back is every individuals right especailly, when they have suffered an injury whereby they have experienced financial loss. It’s even worse when the accident was not your fault? For those who attempt to argue otherwise they would have to be vary mean spirited.e. our lovely Government)!

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