Specialist personal injury solicitors deal with medical negligence compensation claims using Legal Aid or the no win no fee scheme. Specialist lawyers are members of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) clinical negligence panel of experts authorised to deal with applications for public funding to finance claims for compensation against healthcare trusts, clinics, general practices, medical specialists, doctors, dentists, nurses and clinical technicians. Membership of the SRA clinical negligence panel is only open to those lawyers who are able to demonstrate a high degree of skill, considerable experience and expertise in settling difficult medical compensation claims over a long period of time. Less than 1% of solicitors are members of the SRA clinical negligence panel of experts and only those solicitors who are members are entitled to apply for public funding of a medical negligence compensation claim using legal aid. This means that over 99% of lawyers in the UK cannot even make application for legal aid to pursue a clinical negligence compensation claim. Our highly qualified solicitors are experts in their field and all of our lawyers, without exception, are members of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) panel of clinical negligence experts. If you require free advice on personal injury litigation within a medical context, just call the helpline or email our offices. You will speak directly to a very experienced solicitor with no charge and without any further obligation.
Our philosophy is that the client comes first. If we believe that a client has a valid clinical negligence compensation claim then we will make every effort to put in place a method of funding that claim that suits the client including legal aid and the no win no fee scheme. Our clinical negligence solicitors offer :-
Not all failed medical treatment can be categorised as negligent. The mere fact that treatment is not successful does not necessarily indicate clinical negligence. Provided that the treatment was logical and was supported by a reasonable body of medical opinion, the fact that the particular treatment failed whereas another type of treatment may have succeeded does not necessarily indicate medical negligence. The failed treatment must have been administered with a reasonable degree of skill and care and this factor is decided by comparison with other prudent and reasonable medical practitioners faced with the same problem in a similar location.
The purpose of awarding damages for personal injury caused by clinical negligence is intended to put the injured person back in the position that they would have been had the injuries not occurred. All reasonable out of pocket expenses and general expenses can be claimed including wages losses calculated from the past and estimated for the future, however there is also a wide array of damages that must be assessed by a judge for items that cannot be calculated with precision. This category includes compensation for the pain and suffering of the physical injury which depends on the severity of the damage, the recovery period and any long term disabilities. Judges use government guidelines, previously decided cases and their own litigation experience to determine the amount of the assessed part of any award after hearing representation from lawyers acting on behalf of both the claimant and the defendant. An award can consist of a lump sum and/or regular periodical payments for a fixed period or for life.