Funding

We are happy to conduct the majority of our Personal Injury cases on either a no win-no fee basis or via a legal expense insurance policy. Details of these are set out below. We can also offer a privately paying retainer or a contingency agreement. In the unlikely event that these other forms of funding are required, we will explain them in detail at that time.

a. Conditional Fee Agreements (no win-no fee)
Where we consider your prospects of success to be reasonable and where your opponent is insured to pay any award made against them, then we are very happy to offer to act for you on a no win-no fee basis. This means that if your claim succeeds, then your opponent will be asked to pay your damages and then our fees in addition to this. You will not be asked to pay anything towards our fees. If your claim is not successful, then we will waive our fees.

In all cases funded by way of a CFA, we recommend that our clients take out appropriate insurance. This insurance is to cover the risk of you losing the case and being ordered to pay your opponents legal fees. We will discuss the need for such insurance at our first meeting with you.

b. Legal Expense Insurance Funding (LEI)
If you have any existing insurance policies (often for your car, household buildings & contents or annual travel) then these can have attached to them legal expense insurance. Where such insurance exists you have in effect already paid a sum to cover you for many types of legal disputes. Insurance Companies in recent years have tried to take control of legal claims and by doing so, limit your right to instruct the solicitor of your choice. We believe that it is essential for all clients to have confidence that their solicitor is free of any influence from third parties who may have an interest in controlling how a case is run. By not being on any Insurance Company Panels, we are 100% independent to always act in your best interests without having to take into account what another party (e.g. an Insurer) may wish to see done. We also believe that a client should have an absolute right to instruct a local solicitor of their choice and that this creates a good working relationship (in particular, as it gives personal access between solicitor and client) and is an essential part of helping a claim to succeed by way of constructive teamwork.

Where you do have LEI cover, we are happy to contact your insurers and ask that the policy be extended to allow us to act for you. If granted, we will explain how such cover works to you but we would wish to make clear that as we are not on the Panel in question, our ability to act solely in your best interest remains unfettered.

c. Civil Litigation Funding Fee structure
For matters such as debt collection and contract disputes, we will either charge a fixed agreed fee or work on an agreed hourly rate. No fees will be payable by you until we have agreed a basis upon which we will act and charge for our services. We are flexible regarding our fee basis for such work in recognition of the fact that no two cases are the same. Please therefore feel free to contact us to discuss your needs.