No Win, No Fee for personal injury claims is a term used to describe the method of funding legal costs in a personal injury claim. This replaced Legal Aid which has not been available in personal injury cases since the Woolf reforms and the introduction of Civil Procedure Rules on the 26th April 1999.
At Legal Advice Helpline, all of our personal injury solicitors operate on a No Win, No Fee basis. This means that you will have nothing to pay at any time whether you win or lose your case.
In simple terms, the Woolf reforms were introduced as a way to:
- Reduce the cost of litigation
- To streamline the claims process
- To speed up the time cases took to settle; and
- To make it a much fairer system for both plaintiffs (claimants) and defendants.
This means that if your personal injury claim is successful, your opponents will be responsible for paying your legal costs as well as the costs of any 'after the event' insurance policy which it will have been necessary to obtain to ensure that your solicitor's fees are covered. If your personal injury claim is unsuccessful, you will not be required to pay legal costs to your solicitor.
How do I arrange a No Win, No Fee personal injury claim?
However your accident might have occurred whether at work, at home or in a road accident, in order for your personal injury claim to be successful, you will need to be able to demonstrate that the injury you suffered was due to the negligence of another party.
If you have suffered a personal injury, you should always seek legal advice before making a personal injury claim. In some cases, it might be difficult to determine liability for a personal injury claim and so having expert legal advice on hand to represent you in a No Win, No Fee personal injury claim is essential.
Compensation in a No Win, No Fee arrangement
In summary, running a personal injury claim on a No Win, No Fee basis will allow you to keep 100% of the compensation awarded in a successful personal injury claim.
Contact Legal Advice Helpline on 0800 612 3042 for more information browse our service online for further help relating to No Win, No Fee arrangements for personal injury claims.