Irwin Mitchell

Here are the details for this solicitor's practice area of Personal Injury. Please contact the solicitor using the details listed in the contact panel to the right hand side of this page. You can also choose to send an email enquiry or request a call back.

If you've suffered an accident or a personal injury that wasn't your fault, you could be entitled to make a compensation claim. We can help you work out whether you have a claim and our experienced personal injury lawyers will make the claim process as simple and easy to understand as possible.

What type of claim do you have?

Our personal injury lawyers will be able to advise you about claiming compensation for your accident or illness, such as:

• Accident & illness abroad 
• Accidents at work
• Accidents in public places
• Actions against the police 
• Armed forces claims 
• Asbestos related diseases
• Birth injury claims 
• Child abuse
• Children's accidents
• Criminal injury claims 
• Drug liability claims 
• Elder abuse claims
• Group action 
• Head injury claims 
• Horse riding accidents
• Medical Law & Patients Rights Claims 
• Motorbike accidents 
• Polski prawnik 
• Product liability claims 
• Professional negligence 
• Public health claims 
• Road traffic accidents
• Spinal injury claims 
• Sports injury claims 
• Terrorist attacks 
• Transport disasters 
• Work related diseases

How we can help you

We know that many people find legal claims stressful, particularly if you're suffering from illness or injury. We'll try and make it simple for you and provide answers to common questions such as "Can I claim?", "What are the chances of me winning?" and "How much compensation might I get?".

Our approach

At IM we have specialist teams of dedicated and experienced lawyers who deal with personal injury claims every day. Our lawyers are skilled in personal injury claims and know how to achieve the best result. Take a look at our dedicated team of personal injury experts.

The firm provides sympathetic legal advice from lawyers who are committed to protecting the rights of injured people and who are tuned in to their needs. Our lawyers are sensitive to our clients' situation and will work with them in order to ease the journey through the process.

The firm offers a team approach to handling personal injury cases - specialists in each team ensure that:

• Each personal injury claim is individually evaluated
• Each case is pursued professionally
• Every client has the benefit of the firm's expertise

We realise that one approach does not fit all and our services and teams have been developed specifically to ensure that our clients have optimum prospect of success.

Frequently working at the cutting edge of the law we have won many significant cases that have often reshaped the law and set new precedents.

Funding a personal injury claim
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Legal advice from leading solicitors

There are a number of different ways to fund your claim. Which funding option you choose will depend upon your individual circumstances and the facts of your potential claim. Alternative forms of funding include:-

Legal Aid is generally not available to fund personal injury cases.

The basic rule in a Personal Injury claim in England and Wales is that "costs follow the event!" In other words, assuming that you succeed with your claim, your opponents will have to pay both your compensation and legal costs. There are some exceptions but these are quite rare.

We will be pleased to give you free initial advice in relation to your case.

Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA)

Under a CFA, we do not charge you for the work undertaken on your behalf (basic costs) should your claim fail.

Should your claim be successful, we will recover the majority, if not all, our legal costs from your opponent(s) together with your compensation.

We recommend that at the outset, your claim is pursued with the benefit of insurance. In the event that your claim is unsuccessful the insurance policy will cover your opponent's costs, VAT and expenses (disbursments) and in most cases it will also cover the cost of the expenses which you incur in investigating your claim.

Trade Union

If you are a current member of a Trade Union you may be entitled to free legal assistance from them.

Your Union may meet any legal costs incurred on your behalf.

Please let us know, at our first meeting if you think that your Union may be prepared to cover you legal fees.

Private funding

This means that you are responsible for all legal costs incurred on your behalf. Unlike a CFA, if your claim is unsuccessful you will have to pay for the work undertaken on your behalf on the basis of the hourly rate agreed with us.

If court proceedings are started and your case is unsuccessful you will also be responsible for paying your opponents legal costs and expenses.

Legal Expenses Insurance (LEI)

If you have the benefit of LEI as part of an existing Insurance Policy, e.g. motor or household, or possibly Credit Card Insurance, your LEI Policy may cover all legal fees incurred on your behalf.

We will discuss with you at the outset the various options which are open to you before we recommended one of the alternatives and will explain in detail to you the nature of the method of funding your claim before your claim proceeds.

Can I make a compensation claim?

Use the link above to go to our website and complete our personal injury claim form to see how we can help you.

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