UK ROAD ACCIDENT CLAIM ADVICE

Our solicirors will represent the injured victims in a road accident claim on a no win no fee basis. If the other driver has been identified then compensation for the pain and suffering of personal injury and all other losses is always paid in full with no deductions whatsoever. Our lawyers do not require you to pay anything at all to them throughout the course of the claim and unlike some of the Claims Companies, there is no need to take out any loans or pay for any insurance or other expenses. No win no fee claims handled by UK Lawyers are genuinely risk free and we give an absolute written guarantee that you will never have to pay one penny to us.

Compensation for personal injury in the UK is based on the law of negligence which has a long and detailed history dating back to 1348 when a ferryman from Hull was taken to court for drowning a mare belonging to a passenger on his craft. The latest incantation of the law of negligence was established after the decision in a famous 1932 consumer law case of Donohue v. Stevenson where a rotting snail was found in a bottle of ginger ale. Negligence is without doubt the most common form of civil wrong in the United Kingdom and results in hundreds of thousands of road accident claim settlements every year.

Negligence occurs when a person's acts or omissions cause another to suffer some loss or inconvenience and has been given numerous definitions one of the most often quoted of which is as follows

The failure to do something which a reasonable person, guided by ordinary considerations would do; or the doing of something which a reasonable and prudent person would not do.

In order to take court action for a road accident claim it is necessary for the potential claimant to show that the following elements existed :-

• The defendant must have owed a duty of care to the claimant. In the case of road traffic accident claims all users of vehicles whilst on the roads must exercise consideration for other road users and the duty of care will exist almost without exception.
• Assuming that the duty of care does exist in the particular circumstances of the accident it must also be shown that the duty of care was breached by the proposed defendant whose behaviour must have fallen below a reasonably acceptable standard. This means that a conviction in the criminal court for a motoring offence is not necessary to prove negligence.
• Finally it must be proved that loss, damage or injury resulted from and is directly attributable to the breach of duty. Certain losses may however be considered to remote due to them being unforeseeable.
• To put these issues in a nutshell, everyone has a duty of care to his or her legal neighbours who may be defined as anyone who is likely to be affected by any actions or omissions.