No Win No Fee

No win no fee claim in a nutshell... No win no fee claim means just what it says: if we don’t win your personal injury claim or accident compensation claim case we won’t ask you to pay for our work.

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How does it work?

A no win no fee claim is also known as a "Conditional Fee Agreement." Don’t be bothered by that, it’s just a more formal term for the agreement that lies behind a no win no fee arrangement.

When you make a no win no fee claim agreement with us, as long as you comply with the terms of the agreement (which you will readily be able to do), you will...

• not have to pay our charges if you lose your claim, and
• if you win your claim we will not charge you any fees because our fees will be limited to those which we can collect from your opponent - and, you will receive 100% of your compensation

If you lose you will be at risk of having to pay your opponent’s costs.

How can you avoid paying costs?

If you’ve given us complete and honest detail about your claim and we’ve expressed a view that you could proceed with a no win no fee arrangement we would anticipate a successful outcome. But, we all know that life carries few guarantees, which is why we’ll work with you to put protection in place.

• We’ll check whether you have any legal expense insurance. Legal expense insurance can provide suitable protection and it’s often found as part of your household or motoring policy. We can check if you have legal expense insurance.
• It’s possible that trade union membership will offer you legal expense insurance and many credit card insurance policies also provide similar cover.
• We can recommend a suitable policy that will cover you during your claim. We may be able to arrange this cover for you and it is very likely we can do that without you having to pay a premium "up-front."

Other types of no win no fee agreements

You may have heard of a "Collective Conditional Fee Agreement," this is very similar to the Conditional Fee Agreement / no win no fee agreement noted above. So, what’s the difference?

The Conditional Fee Agreement is used when you come to us direct and you instruct us to work on your behalf. A Collective Conditional Fee Agreement is used when your insurer, for example your motor insurer or the provider of your legal expense insurance, instructs us to work on your behalf. Basically, there’s another party involved and the group of us - you, us and your insurer - are seen as a "collective."

The basic no win no fee principle remains the same. There is a difference in relation to our fees. If you win we are entitled to an additional "success fee." We will charge your insurer for our charges and our success fee, but we limit those fees to the level of fees that can be claimed from your opponent. The best part is, just like the first no win no fee agreement, we don’t take any fees or charges from your compensation award. You get 100% compensation.

With a no win no fee arrangement based on a Collective Conditional Fee Agreement your insurer covers the risk in relation to paying your opponent’s costs if you lose.

Where Next?

When you instruct us we’ll send you a no win no fee agreement and a copy of our terms of business. Both are short and written in plain English. If you want to see either of these documents before you instruct us, just let us know and we’ll send you copies to review at your leisure.

When you contact us, you won’t get a secretary on the line, nor will you go into a call centre that will farm your call out to the highest bidding law firm, you’ll get straight to one of our team: a friendly, trained and supportive professional, experienced in personal injury claims and accident compensation with a talent for listening.

If you’ve decided that we’re the no win no fee solicitors you’d like on your side, or you want to ask us some questions before you make a decision, call us on 08000 93 00 94 or send our team an Online Claim Enquiry.