TOPIC: Solicitor - No Win No Fee

Does anyone know of a decent one in the Carlisle area??
Can anyone recommend one through personal experience?
Am maybe going to need one following an illness and don't really have the means of paying for a lengthy legal battle.

musher441 wrote:
Avoid Bell Park and Kerridge(sp)

Was offered 45k out of court advised to refuse won 27

To add they are out there, that won't take a percentage. This is because their costs are covered by the opposition should you win. If they won't take it you obviously don't have a case.

Prawncrackhead wrote:
Cheers mate.Thats good to know.
Never had to do anything like this before and don't really know where to start.

All of them will offer you at least half an hour free of charge, go to at least half a dozen of them and see what they think. You'll get most of them actually telling you the same stuff, some of them will try to feed you a load of cack, but you'll be able to spot them from what the decent ones say. Once you get a decent one on a no win, no fee make sure you use them. Everything goes through them, don't take any letters or calls yourself, just divert everything to the solicitor. If you get a good one, they are absolutely fantastic. I've got clients who have been saved hundreds of thousands by good solicitors.

Moorlad wrote:
Cheers Moorlad.
Any in particular you can recommend ?

To be honest mate, it isn't always a particular firm of solicitors. Most of the decent sized ones have some great people, and to be honest it is to do with who you get on best with. Milburns in West Cumbria are very good generally though.

When i broke my ankle last summer i used cartmel shephard and they were nothing short of excellent with advice and all the legal stuff involved would deffo recommend them to anyone .free 3/4 hr consultation
Think it cost me less than 200 for insurance cover for the case (sure that covererd possible court costs and fees if id lost) and i got every penny of my compensation
Good luck .

Don't use Burnett's of Carlisle, I won my case but I still sure I should've won more. I was on incapacity benefit for a year and apparently I had to pay all this back after winning my case and out of my winnings [censored]! Still wonder if this is true? Any advice Moorlad? Also when you win your case they put the winnings away for at least 6 months (would be more if you let them) for them to do "administration". It's BS all it's for is for them to hold onto it in a high interest account and take the profits. A practise apparently done by most Solicitors and technically illegal.

Give Kevin Commons a ring.

Fat Boy Slim Fast wrote:
"High interest account" i remember them.

Fat Boy Slim Fast wrote:
What they do is hold on to the money until everything is completed, and that is not illegal. I used to audit a number of solicitors and they have a general client account as well as their practice account. If they get very substantial amounts on behalf of a client they are obliged to open a separate individual client account to hold that money in, and pay the interest to the actual client. If it is a smaller amount (can't remember the actual amount) it goes in the general account. If they hold it for too long a time (and this is checked as part of the audit process) they have to give that client the interest he/she would have earned. I can assure you that all the solicitors I've ever acted on behalf of have behaved perfectly when it comes to client money, it just is not worth it for them not to.

I'm not sure about your individual one mate, because I'm fairly sure incapacity is not a means tested benefit, but it was changed for new claimants when Gordon Brown was still PM to ESA (Employment Support Allowance?), but I don't think that is means tested either. You'd have to pay some back if you had earnings or a pension (perhaps if part of an award was loss of earnings or pension as well).

Mind there is an income related ESA which is means tested.

There are still accounts offering 7% return available.................

Thanks for the info Moorland, knew you would have the knowledge. Won my case in 2009 so Brown would've been in charge and all my incapacity benefit was paid back out of my award, so I guess it wasn't illegal, but another sly move by the government to stiff us even more.

All wefare benefits that you may receive whilst your claim is ongoing are repayable to the DWP, Incapacity, Esa, Industrial Injury Disablement Benefit
Not sure about PIP or DLA
Its the old rule that you can't be compensated TWICE.

thesilentone wrote:
Doubt it, where?