Our specialist personal injury department will act exclusively for people who have been injured due to the negligence of others. Our department is experienced in recovering millions of pounds in compensation on behalf of our clients.
You can rest assured that your claim is in good hands. With over 15 years’ experience in a wide range of Personal Injury matters you are in safe hands. We have a proven track record of handling personal injury claims and pride ourselves on thorough communication with our clients from day one.
If you’ve been injured, and that injury was someone else’s fault (whether they meant it or not, and whether they were fully or partly to blame) then the law entitles you to seek a compensation payment to help you with how your injury has affected your life.

We specialise in:

Road Traffic Accident Claims: – 

If you have suffered a road traffic accident due to someone else’s carelessness, our personal injury team will ensure that you get maximum compensation for your personal injury and guide you through the legal complexities. 

Accident at Work: 

 If you have suffered a physical injury, financial loss or emotional damage due to an accident at work, you have every right to file a claim. This is where our personal injury team come into picture. Our personal injury team have successfully managed numerous claims for accidents at work. We are fully prepared to assist you in obtaining the compensation you fairly deserve.  If you have suffered injury in any form due to lapse in health and safety protocols, you are fully qualified to file a workplace accident claim. There could also be grounds for a claim if accidents at work aggravate an existing wound or health condition. Your employer is responsible for ensuring you work in a safe environment with all necessary safety protocols. 
Slips and Trips: 

 Though there are many ways to prevent such accidents like cleaning all spills immediately, marking wet areas, sweeping debris from floors, removing obstacles from walkways and always keeping walkways free of clutter or dirt etc. Due to lack of these safety protocols innocent people may suffer and be victims of slips, trips and falls accidents.  It’s the duty of the space owners to take necessary precautions and be responsible for other people’s safety. So, if you have suffered due to someone else’s negligence you may be entitled to receive compensation. 

Clinical Negligence: 

Medical negligence happens when healthcare practioners breach their duty of care towards their patient which may result in worsening of an existing condition or may cause an injury. This can occur through various means like incorrect diagnosis, inappropriate treatment or errors during a surgical procedure. This kind of negligence is on the rise. 

Catastrophic injury: 

 Our personal injury team has wide experience in all serious injury work types and claim issues, including brain, spine, amputation, severe psychiatric injury, polytrauma and utmost severity cases. A catastrophic injury is generally defined as any serious injury that results in permanent disability, long-term medical problems or reduced life-expectancy. Catastrophic injuries can cause extreme pain and suffering and can have devastating consequences for you and your family.

Public Liability:

  Property owners have a legal responsibility towards keeping public areas safe for everyone. Property owners may be held responsible if anyone is injured due to their negligence in maintaining safety protocols. Accidents are considered public liability when they happen in public places like sidewalks, parks, stores, or supermarkets.

Rehabilitation/Recovery Aid

We can help you and your family recover compensation to help with rehabilitation, care, treatment and loss of earnings. We work to ease your financial burden to enable you and your family to focus on recovery. We can in some serious matters, help you receive an interim payment from the fault party (subject to liability being accepted). This will help to ease any financial hardship you may suffer following an injury.

Our personal injury team will discuss with you the best course of action according to the circumstances.  

We at A&H Law Solicitors can help you with, whether you have suffered injuries at work, or have been involved in a car accident, to get the right amount of compensation get in touch with us.

Time constraints for filing claims

Generally, you have three years from discovering negligent treatment or to file an injury to claim.

There are few exceptions to time constraints for filing a personal injury claim: 
⦁ Generally, for minors, claims can be made until their 18th birthday, with the three-year rule applying thereafter. 
⦁ For people with mental disorders, there is no time limit. 

Funding a Claim

Most of our injury cases operate on a no win no fee basis, under the Conditional fee Agreement (CFA) that means you only pay if your claim is successful. This way you can avoid financial risks and pursue the case with more confidence.

Damages based agreements are also a type of no win, no fee agreement. Under a CFA the solicitor will typically charge the client a success fee if the case is won. This success fee is calculated by reference to hours works, agreed upon in advance and is capped by the law to 25%. For example, if a client receives damages of £5000, the success fee will be £1250 inclusive of Vat.

With a DBA the client pays over a percentage share of the damages recovered to the legal team, so the fees are referenced to the amount recovered rather than the amount of time spent on the claim.

If your claim is unsuccessful, you may still have to pay your disbursements. Therefore, to protect you against this possibility it is recommend that you take out an insurance policy known as an ‘After-the-Event’ policy (ATE).

A&H Law Solicitors is regulated by CILEx Regulations, who is not a Designated Professional Body under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, therefore we have not been provided with the Part XX exemption to provide ancillary financial services such as recommended to or arrange to obtain an ATE Insurance.

However, Legal Expenses Insurance may be another route to protect you against having to pay our fees and any charges we incur in acting for you, such as medical fees and may also protect you against having to pay the legal fees and disbursements of your opponent. Legal Expenses Insurance is often contained within other types of insurance policies such as Home Contents or your motor policy. If you have any insurance policy, we advise that you check whether your policies or any policies belonging to your spouse or partner contain legal expenses insurance.

Disbursements that you will incur in a claim are medical reports, vehicle engineering report, counsel fees and court fees.

Depending on the type of medical report required, these can vary from £216 upwards. An example would be where an individual who suffered a whiplash injury in a Road Traffic Accident may only require a GP complied medico legal report. Such reports are fixed under the CPR 45 to £216 inclusive of Vat. However, where an individual who has suffered some bony injury such as fracture, they may require an orthopaedic report, which can again vary from £504 inclusive of Vat upwards. Specialist reports can cost more, these can region from £1500 plus vat upwards.

Engineers fee could be from £180 inclusive of Vat to £2500 inclusive of Vat. Engineers fee can vary as sometime the courts want both parties’ engineers to have a discussion report compiled. This report aids the court to narrow any issues relating to liability or causation.

Therefore, continuing from the above example, wherein the client received £5000 in damages, the success fee will be £1250 inclusive of Vat. If there are no complexity, the engineers report fee would have been £180 inclusive of Vat, medical report fee would be £216 inclusive of Vat. The claim was settled within the three years of limitation, therefore, no court fees had to be paid, the total clients bill be £1484 inclusive of Vat and disbursements. Subject to the Fault Party covering the disbursements on a successful outcome of the claim, the client will only pay £1250 from his damages. Should the Fault Party fail to pay any disbursements relating to the clients claim, the client will be liable to pay these from their damages.

Sometimes a claim can take longer than 3 years. In such case, the matter will need to be issued into the court to protect the claim from becoming statute barred. A case is statute barred when the claim is not settled before the expiry of the 3 years limitation, or not issued in court to be protect, and goes past the 3 years limitation. In such situation a claim cannot continue. However, we will ensure that the claim is issued protectively to avoid it becoming statute barred.

When a case is issued in court, a fee is required to be paid. Depending on the value of the claim, this can vary from £35 to £10,000.

At A&H Law Solicitors, we always make on behalf of the client, a help with fees application to see whether they qualify for a fee remission. If you qualify, this will keep your disbursements low.

Whiplash Reforms

The main difference is the claim value at which you can expect legal costs to be covered by the liable party. Previously, if you were involved in a road traffic accident and suffered a whiplash injury worth over £1,000, the insurers of the vehicle at fault would pay your appropriate legal costs so you could be represented by a legal expert who would seek compensation on your behalf. 

Now, under the Civil Liability Act and the whiplash reforms, that limit has been increased to £5,000. As most claims for whiplash are valued at under £5,000, most whiplash claimants no longer have their legal representation paid for by the other side’s insurers.

Additional difference is the amount of compensation you’ll receive for a whiplash injury. This has been reduced, and new tariffs have been set.

The whiplash reforms offer fixed amounts of compensation for those who’ve suffered whiplash because of a road traffic accident where someone else was at fault. 

The amount of compensation for your pain and suffering will depend upon the length of time your symptoms lasted. Therefore, the new tariffs of compensation you can receive for whiplash injuries following 31 May 2021 are: