A “No Win No Fee” is exactly as it sounds; if your solicitor does not win your case for you, you will not be charged for their services. The reason solicitors are able to offer this service is because they would not take on a personal injury claim if they do not think they have a good enough chance of winning it. At The Injury Lawyers we offer this service, meaning you’ll never have to pay us penny.
Receive 100% of the compensation – how does the solicitor get paid?
Under English and Welsh law, if the solicitor wins a case they are entitled to claim their fees from the other side. This allows you to get the full amount of the compensation you deserve.
Many companies will have it in writing that they will seek to recover their costs from the other side. However, that is not a guarantee that they will not charge you. If they fail to recover their costs from the other side you may be required to pay their fees. Most reputable companies would not try to charge you for their services; but the fact remains that they could charge you.
Here at The Injury Lawyers we have it in writing that we cannot seek to obtain our costs from you in the event we fail to get any or all of them back from the other side. This is a guarantee to you meaning that you will always receive 100% of your compensation.
Referral Fees . . .
Some of the companies out there offering the “No win No Fee” and 100% Compensation Services are actually claims management companies. These companies will take down your details and then sell them on to a team of solicitors for what is known as a referral fee. This can have a negative impact on the outcome of your claim, because the solicitors that bought your claim will not be able to claim any referral fee back from the other side – and so may not put in the same amount of work or dedication to get the best possible result for as they have less money to spend on you and your case given that they have wasted a portion of their budget on the referral fee.
At The Injury Lawyers we do not pay referral fees- we only deal with our clients directly. In fact, we regularly speak with clients who wish to switch from their current company to us because of the bad service they’ve received from going through claims management companies.
So, with us, there is no catch; we offer our legal advice for free, so if you think you have a claim give us a call and we can advise you as to whether you have a genuine no win no fee claim and what you should do next.