How to Win Your Accident at Work Claim

There have been many changes to the law in the last five years, budgets have been cut, costs have been restricted and legal aid is all but gone.

While these changes have all been directed at legal professionals, limiting and restricting how they work and get paid for their work, the ones who suffer are the general public.

As they lose their Access to Justice, by losing affordable legal representation.

People who have low value, but valid claims are finding themselves without any kind of legal representation, going up against large insurance companies and their extensive legal teams all alone, with no legal advice.

This is because legal professionals cannot financially afford to take on these cases anymore. As claims for injuries which are valued at less than £25,000.00, have had their costs fixed. Meaning that regardless of how much work is involved the pay will always be the same and this is usually a lower amount than the work involved, more work for less pay effectively, meaning large write-offs for firms.

Also, previously the losing party was responsible for the winning parties’ costs (so if you won the claim the Defendant insurance team would pay your legal costs) now they are only responsible for a part of those costs and the remainder will come out of your compensation. This is limited to 25% of your compensation, but if your legal professional has done ten hours’ worth of work and your compensation is a few thousand, then 25% of that won’t cover the work involved.

This means less compensation for you and the risk of going out of business for firms that take on these cases.

So more and more of the UK public are finding themselves with perfectly valid claims but no legal advice or help and with the budgets of free legal advice clinics being cut free legal advice is thin on the ground.

Car Accident That’s where LawCat steps in.

My name is Katie, and I started LawCat when I noticed the deplorable way our legal system treats individual claimants. I have spent over eight years working in Personal injury and have created the LawCat guides to help you bring your claim your way!

The first of these guides How to Win Your Car Accident Claim comes out on 1^st November 2018.