We have always had a strong presence in personal injury law in the North Staffordshire area and we are now taking cases from Shropshire, Cheshire and from Derbyshire as our reputation spreads across the North Midlands.
All our cases are handled personally by our specialist solicitor Stephen Brookes who is an Assessor of the Law Society’s Personal Injury Accreditation Scheme and he has been a panel member of the scheme since 1996.
No win, no fee
If the case succeeds, there will be a number of charges involved. If the case fails, we charge nothing.
Cutting a layer of fees
You don't need a claims manager. Come to us directly and cut out extra administration and cost.
Free initial case review
We offer an initial consultation in personal injury claims, on a no obligation basis.
Compensation levels
A number of payments may be deducted from the compensation in the event of success.
Taking over cases
We are frequently approached to act in place of a client's former solicitors.
Recommendations
Over 80% of our work is from former clients or recommendations made by a former client.
Benefits of using our services
- We are a member of the Personal Injury Accreditation Scheme (or Personal Injury Panel) of the Law Society.
- We have a successful track record in winning claims.
- We do not engage in distasteful practices such as ambulance chasing, or “cold-calling” for business; a successful specialist legal practice does not need to accost you in the street or call at your home to pressurise you into signing up with an inexperienced and unregulated “claims manager”.
- We advise about all possible funding methods.
- There is no requirement to purchase insurance or sign up to anything before seeing a solicitor.
- Advice is provided directly by a consultant-level solicitor – not by middlemen putting you in contact with their “panel solicitors”.
- We can offer home visits in appropriate cases.
- We offer information about prospects of success, the value of the claim, time to conclude, costs involved and funding.
- We have an effective complaints procedure.
Categories of Personal Injury Claims
Accidents at Work
An accident at work can be an accident at the place where you are employed, or in a vehicle, you drive on behalf of your employer or even at another workplace you have to visit in the course of your own employment.
Injuries From Defective Products
When a product is sold to a buyer, and the product is defective such that the buyer sustains an injury, the buyer should first consider whether a claim is brought under the purchase agreement in contract law.
Lifting & Handling Injuries at Work
We believe that manual handling injuries at work are worthy of a separate mention because back injuries are one of the most common causes of time off work.
Negligence
Negligence is the breach of a legal duty to take care which results in injury, loss or damage to the person bringing the claim.
Harassment, Bullying at Work & Stress
Claims involving harassment and bullying at work are complicated because there is often a very significant overlap with the law of employment, so a solicitor must be mindful that legal remedies and redress can arise both in the field of personal injury law and in the field of employment law.
Clinical Negligence
We will initially take details of what has gone wrong in a free appointment and how it has affected you. We will ask you to pay a small sum of money for us to get in and assess the medical records.
Occupational Disease Claims
Occupational disease claims are claims which arise where an employee has developed a medical condition or disease through repeated or prolonged exposure to a harmful effect at work.
Injuries Received Through Crime
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) pays compensation to the victims of crimes of violence, arson, poisoning or to a person injured in an attempted apprehension of an offender or the attempted prevention of an offence.
Fatal Accidents
The law in this area is contained in the Law Reform Act 1934 and particularly in the Fatal Accidents Act 1976. Our team of specialist legal advisors can help you through this difficult time.
Claims Involving Land & Buildings
If you have been injured whilst in a building belonging to or maintained by another person, and your injury occurred because of the dangerous state of the premises, you may have a valid claim, but the law is never quite that simple.
Road Traffic Accidents
We offer a specialist service to clients with road traffic accident claims in North Staffordshire, South Cheshire and East Shropshire, particularly in motorcycle claims where injuries can be severe.
Holiday Claims
The majority of all claims brought by UK residents for injuries occurring in foreign lands are brought under the Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package Tour Regulations 1992 (or PTR for short).
Tripping and Slipping Claims
Tripping and slipping claims are most frequently brought against a highway authority responsible for maintaining a highway at public expense. Find out more about what you need to do to bring a claim for a pavement tripping accident online today.
FAQs about Personal Injury
Expert legal advice on all matters relating to personal injury from one of the Staffordshire leading law practices. We have answered our most frequently asked questions here.
Personal Injury Compensation & Funding
Personal Injury Compensation
Funding of Personal Injury Claims
Help, Support & FAQs
How do I get a claims funding factsheet?
Am I entitled to industrial injuries disablement benefit?
Am I entitled to disability living allowance?
Am I entitled to constant attendance allowance?
Am I entitled to severe disablement allowance?
What is a personal injury claim?
- Are you someone who would prefer to instruct a local solicitor – it helps if long face to face meetings may be required and promotes a better service – it may mean your receiving more compensation
- The Law Society have an expert panel of Personal Injury Solicitors in your area
Do you offer legal aid for personal injury?
- Claims involving abuse of a child or vulnerable adult taking place when that person was a child or vulnerable adult
- Claims for judicial review involving a personal injury element
- Claims involving injury from the abuse of power or a significant breach of Convention Rights by a public authority except where it is clinical negligence
- Claims of obstetric clinical negligence for severely neurologically disabled children where the injury was caused whilst in the womb/during birth/ in the 8 weeks after the birth
- Claims for injury ( including those made through employment law ) arising through the exploitation or human-trafficking of an individual who is a victim of that trafficking or exploitation
- A claim arising through a sexual offence
- Assistance at an inquest into the death of a person
- A claim for personal injury arising through a cross border dispute
- You will have to qualify financially
- The case will have to satisfy a costs/benefit test which many cases cannot satisfy
What are the other types of loss
- Care/attendance provided by family members or the loss of home maintenance, DIY and gardening ability
- Damage to pension funds from not being able to maintain contributions
- Damage for loss of an enjoyable job
- Housing adaptation costs
- Mobility/transport costs
- Medical treatment costs
- Loss of free time
What is and do I need legal expenses insurance?
Recommendation and Referrals
What is compensation awarded for?
What are the time limits for personal injury claims
- For a claim brought in negligence – 3 years
- For a claim brought under a contractual liability or an assault claim/infliction of deliberate harm – 6 years
- Criminal Injuries Claim – 2 years
- Time limits do not start to run until a Claimant is 18
- If a Claimant is mentally incapacitated, time may never run out
- That the injury was significant
- That it was attributable to the Defendants actions or failures
- Of the identity of the Defendant
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Time runs from the date of the injury or the date of “knowledge” if later. Knowledge is defined as knowledge:-