Unlike low income earners in England and Wales who have had access to Conditional Fee Agreements since 1995, residents of Northern Ireland remain unable to make use of the CFA system. Yet solicitors and legal advice centres across Northern Ireland receive daily enquiries about Conditional Fee Arrangements from low earning individuals. These potential clients enquire, only to find that Conditional Fee Arrangements’ are not a (more…)
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A woman who required £3,000 of dental work after finding a stone in her pre-made sandwich is, over 3 years later, still involved in a protracted personal injury compensation claim. It is hard to believe that a small stone in a sandwich could cause such an expensive personal injury, or that it could take nearly 4 years for the compensation claim to be settled. (more…)
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Claiming for an injury can be fairly straightforward. As far as the victim is concerned there’s rarely a need to go to court (around 95% are settled before proceedings) as insurers know that court cases cost money. In ‘no win no fee’ cases usually the costs of being represented are recovered from the other party. It all sounds very easy but remember (more…)
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Peter Aspinall, a 64 year old hotel worker from Bolton, has claimed in excess of £1000 after falling 14 feet from a Sycamore tree in the Egerton House Hotel grounds.
Mr Aspinall made the work accident (more…)
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The family of a man killed in a road traffic accident has been awarded a compensation sum of £350,000.
Ninian Donald, 33, was cycling home from work when he was involved in a collision with a skip lorry. He is survived by his long term partner, Kate Evenden, and a 19 month old daughter, Rosie.
His partner Kate had to take the matter to London’s High Court, however, to make a compensation claim when CCTV footage revealed that Mr Donald was partly at fault for the accident and his death.
The footage showed that Donald, who worked in Hackney, took to (more…)
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One of the many problems caused by the cold winter is that the country was left with a legacy of pot holes and cracked roads, resulting in accidents and damage to vehicles. Personal injuries were also incurred as more people slipped on untreated surfaces or fell on rough pavements.
As a result compensation claims for injury and damage caused by poor roads has soared. In Glasgow and Midlothian claims have doubled this year, as Scotland was one of the hardest hit regions.
In North Wales over £150,000 has been awarded in compensation to drivers as a result of pothole damage to cars, a rise of 60% in some areas.
Alison Borthwick from Stirlingshire spent £150 on her damaged (more…)
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A stab victim who was left with irreversible brain damage after what a Judge described as “failures in medical care” at the hospital that was treating him, has been awarded £850,000 plus additional, ongoing payments for the rest of his life.
Leslie Dye, 57, who had been stabbed in the neck, was taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital in Essex where medical staff treating him failed to interpret a scan correctly. As a result, he suffered a cardiac arrest which starved his brain of oxygen and left him permanently disabled. He now requires full time, professional care.
Mr Dye, who had previously worked as a taxi driver, is now cared for full time at a centre that specialises in treating patients with traumatic brain injury that can charge up to £4000 per week.
His daughter, Emma, brought the compensation claim on her father’s behalf.
Mr Justice Burnett at the High Court said in his judgement that it (more…)
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