It’s probably the most asked question we at The Injury Lawyers hear when we take on a new case – and it’s perfectly understandable for people to be asking it. So, here’s a quick insight in to the costs of claiming; you may be pleasantly surprised at the answer…
No Win No Fee
Ever heard of this term before? It’s quite a common one we injury lawyers talk about! Most No Win No Fee agreements such as ours (I say most, because not all law firms out there work the same us) do exactly what they say on the tin! If the claim is lost, the claimant is not charged for the solicitors work. So who pays us? The answer is – no one!
A little confused as to how we can do this? Again, it’s understandable – but what we do is only take on a claim if we think it’s going to win. Basically, we don’t expect to lose it; which is how we can offer the No Win No Fee. Essentially, we experts are happy to take the risk of a case on if we feel we are confident in winning it. It also means that you know we will always fight harder for your claim if the other side do end up disputing that they are liable; which is often a standard procedure for them.
So, under a genuine No Win No Fee like ours, you pay nothing if the claim isn’t successful!
100% Compensation
Probably another term you may have heard of before; it often goes hand in hand with No Win No Fee. With an expert personal injury law firm like us, on a genuine No Win No Fee, you pay nothing if the claim is successful as well! And you will be happy to know that this is always the case for the majority of types of claims for injury (e.g. road accidents, accidents at work, or slips, trips and falls).
So… who pays us? The other side do, not you! Let’s face it, it wouldn’t be fair if you were awarded £5,000 and had to pay a third of it out on legal fees now would it! If that was the case, you wouldn’t have been fully compensated. This is recognised in law, which means that experts like us do not charge you for a successful claim. We don’t even make any deductions – you keep 100% of the compensation that you are awarded. We treat our costs as a completely separate issue and they are normally recovered at the end of the claim anyway; when your settlement cheque is safely in your bank account.
In fact, we at The Injury Lawyers do things a little different to most other law firms – we dare to be different to make our service better for our clients! Most standard No Win No Fee agreements (or Conditional Fee Agreements as they are commonly known) state that a solicitor will seek to recover your legal fees at the end of a successful claim. What this means is that they could, if they wanted to, potentially charge you if they failed to recover all of their costs! I imagine most firms wouldn’t, as they would end up getting a bad reputation for themselves – but what we at The Injury lawyers did was ask ourselves the question: why say seek if we would never charge anyway? So, what we state in our agreement is that we restrict our legal fees to whatever we get back.
So, under our genuine No Win No Fee agreement, we don’t charge you if a claim isn’t successful, and we cannot charge you for a successful claim! We can therefore guarantee that you receive 100% of the compensation you are legally and fairly entitled to recover for an accident – no deductions, no hidden charges!
Don’t hesitate to give us a call for some free, no obligation legal advice on claiming; we are always happy to assist in any way that we can!
