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No Win No Fee – what is it?
20/07/2011“No Win No Fee” is the colloquial name for a Contract which most commonly arises between Legal Advisors and members of the public. In this, the Legal Advisor offers to work for you but to waive their fee for the work done if the claim is unsuccessful. If the claim is successful, then they will charge a fee. In some circumstances, this is taken from the compensation that they have recovered for you. In other circumstances (presently, although the Government is seeking to change this), their fees and the other costs incurred in running the case (often called disbursements) can be recovered from your opponents on top of your compensation. As a ‘No Win No Fee’ Agreement transfers some or all of the risk from you to your legal advisor, often they will charge an additional fee (often called a ’Success Fee’) to reflect the risk they run of not being paid if the claim is not successful.
There are technical rules around this agreement which your Legal Advisor will explain to you.
These agreements are widely used in litigation relating to Personal Injury claims, some Clinical Negligence claims, in claims arising from breaches of Employment Contracts, in financial disputes.
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No win no fee agreements are an important way of allowing people who are not rich from being able to afford access to justice. Click here for an article on how victims of the News of the World phone hacking scandal have used them.
In Tollers it is the Injury Claims Department where No Win No Fee agreements are used most. At any one time, the Injury Claims Department at Tollers is assisting 3,000+ people with the after effects of accidents and injuries and to claim compensation for their injuries and losses. We work for most of our clients on a no win no fee basis. Below is a list of the types of accident claims we cover:
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Contact us at pienquiries@tollers.co.uk. Alternatively call us on 0845-634-2264.
Tollers have offices in Northampton, Milton Keynes, Kettering and Corby. However, we assist people in Rugby, Leicester, Peterborough, Bedford, Oxford, Huntingdon, Wellingborough, Rushden, Towcester, Luton & Dunstable, St Albans, Gloucester, Peterborough, Birmingham, Coventry, London and, indeed, throughout the UK.
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