Conditional Fee Agreements - No Win No Fee
Your personal injury solicitor aims to fund your case in order to enforce your rights to compensation whilst minimising your risks if you lose. They are prepared to back your case under a no win, no fee agreement. This is also known as a conditional fee agreement.
Not all legal work can be conducted in this way. The agreements can usually work only where your opponent can be ordered to pay your legal costs. The most common use of conditional fee agreeements is in personal injury cases, because public funding is no longer available for these claims.
If your solicitor takes on your case under a no win, no fee agreement, they are paid nothing if we lose the case. This means you would not have to pay anything if they were unsuccessful in obtaining compensation for you.
If you win the case, they will ensure that your opponent has to pay your legal costs as well as your compensation. Very often, the opponents have to pay all the costs, but occasionally there is a shortfall which usually has to come out of your compensation.
The solicitors we use are personal injury specialists with over 6 years experience in compensation claims. Where a case is finely balanced in terms of success they will arrange insurance to cover the risk of them losing the case. This means that if you did lose the case, you would not need to worry about having to pay any costs to your opponent.