Personal Injury Law

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.

  • Free initial case review.

    We offer an initial consultation in personal injury claims, on a no obligation basis.

  • Taking over cases.

    We are frequently approached to act in place of a client's former solicitors.

  • Cutting a layer of fees.

    You don't need a claims manager. Come to us directly and cut out extra administration and cost.

  • Compensation levels.

    A number of payments may be deducted from the compensation in the event of success.

  • Recommendations.

    Over 80% of our work is from former clients or recommendations made by a former client.

Setting the Standard

We were one of the first firms in the geographical area to be granted a legal aid franchise for personal injury work in 1994. A franchise amounted to a badge of excellence and we have adhered to those high standards since then, even though legal aid is really no longer available for almost all personal injury claims.

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, value of claim, time to conclude, costs involved and funding.
  • Using us would mean that you would have access to the ONLY Law Society approved insurance product (which is  only available to Accident Line solicitors) to underwrite the other side’s costs if a no win no fee claim fails.
  • We have an effective complaints procedure.
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Categories of Personal Injury Claims:

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.

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.

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.

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 is the breach of a legal duty to take care which results in injury, loss or damage to the person bringing the claim.

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.

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.

We have a long established practice in handling claims involving 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.

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.

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.

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 be brought under the purchase agreement in contract law.

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).

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…

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