Personal injury cases Norwich- Bringing a personal injury case
 

The first step in deciding whether you want to bring a claim is to contact us, either by telephone or by clicking the box at the end of this page

When we have got the details of your claim we will advise whether it is worth your while and ours to bring the case. 

We describe our relationship with our clients as a partnership in that if we win the case for you, you will receive damages and we in turn will receive costs on a No-Win-No-Fee basis, if we do not win the case we won't be paid and therefore there is every incentive for us to work really hard and efficiently to bring your claim home safely for both our benefits.

If we jointly decide to go ahead with the case we will meet with you, go through the details of the case and sign the No-Win-No-Fee paperwork. 

Once the paperwork is signed we can get on with the task of collecting the evidence including your own Witness Statement, collecting the medical notes to prove the injury and sending you to our doctor for an assessment of your injuries and also the effect of the injuries on you for the future.

In most cases we would write to the proposed Defendant as soon as we write to you to advise about the case. There may be exceptions to this but generally we like to move the case forward as swiftly as possible. 

The letter to the Defendants, which is called a letter of claim, gives the Defendants about 4 months to respond. Their response should say whether they admit the case and if they do not admit the case it should say why. 

If the case is admitted we can get medical evidence and quickly move your case forward to try to settle it. 

It is unlikely that a case with an admission of liability would need to go to Court unless the Defendants make a very silly offer of compensation to settle. 

If the Defendants deny liability we need to go to work to prove your case, and we do this by means of your evidence in a Witness Statement and evidence of any supporting witnesses, and any other documents which we can obtain on your behalf, such as to show that other accidents have occurred in a similar way to other employees, or that the company has a history of asbestos exposure. There are clever tricks which we use everyday to try to force the Defendants to admit liability as early as possible. 

If we cannot settle the case for whatever reason we would suggest that Court papers are issued, and that would take us into the Court system where the Defendants would have to formally set out their Defence to the case, and we can attack that Defence.

After the Defence the Court usually order Directions which provide for both parties exchanging documents, Export Reports and Witness Statements which leads onto a Court Hearing, again only if we cannot settle your claim.

If you need any further advice on these procedures please do telephone to ask. 

At all stages we consider Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms such as round table meetings. We recently settled a case for a client in just such a meeting for more than £100,000.00. 

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