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When one person is injured by another person or company, there is likely to be a dispute about who was to blame and in what amounts. Often the degree of the dispute depends on how much evidence the claiming party is able to accumulate and what kind of compensation claims they are making.

Rarely, the guilty party simply compensates the injured party in order to avoid a hassle. Sometimes these cases are resolved through mediation between the parties involved or with the help of a professional assessor. Or perhaps the insurance company of the faulted party will feel that the evidence is strong enough to warrant a settlement offer of some kind.

However, in many cases, court intervention is necessary. This may be especially true of cases that involve an injury at work, when the company may also have to answer to some government authority in addition to the injured party's solicitor. Or, when the accident has been severe enough or the claim for compensation is large enough, the claimant may be best served by going to the courts because their award of compensatory damages may then be larger as a result.

However, then the claimer is faced with the problem of keeping up with the status of time frames and requirements of the court processes once they have claimed damages at the court. They may also be concerned about how to pay for the fees involved with the long legal road that will hopefully lead to their being compensated. It is possible to spend months or years and thousands of pounds trying to get another party to compensate them for the money that they have already spent and couldn't afford in the first place.

For these situations, Legal Aid is no longer an option either. Due to the growing number of personal injury cases over the preceding decades, the U.K. government decided to eliminate funding for Legal Aid assistance in representing plaintiffs in 1998. Yet compensating the victim of an accident is still possible through no win no fees or conditional fee agreements with many solicitors or injury assessors. In these cases, the winner of the case has the costs of their solicitor's fee paid for them by the losing party or their insurance company. Because of this, no fees are usually taken from the injured party before they win. In fact, in pure no win no fee arrangements, no winning compensation is paid to the winner's lawyer. The winner leaves the case with their entire award intact.

However, before signing one of these agreements, it's important to make sure that there are no 'hidden fees' that the client may be asked to pay later on. Also, since many people's financial wellbeing may depend on getting an adequate settlement, asking a potential solicitor for examples of cases that they have won recently is a way to judge whether or not they are a good risk for your trust. If you find that they have no wins in their recent track record of cases similar to yours, then you may have a better outcome with another choice. However, it is important to keep in mind the three year time limit involved in filing your case so that you do not lose the opportunity to receive compensation entirely.