Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases (Judicial College Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases)

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Personal injury claims are handled on a no win no fee basis. Under a no win no fee agreement, your solicitor will receive a success fee of up to 25% of your compensation. There may be other costs which your solicitor will explain before you proceed. For example, your solicitor may need to take out legal protection insurance to cover any costs if your claim is not successful and to ensure your claim is risk free. Please see our no win, no fee section for further information. Updated to account for inflation since the last edition, and also to reflect decisions of the higher courts on quantum.

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The official injury tables indicate the range of general damages compensation payouts for injury claims.Personal injury enquiries are handled by our partners at National Accident Helpline (a trading name of National Accident Law) who are regulated and authorised by the Solicitor Regulation Authority (SRA). All practitioners should familiarise themselves with the new guidelines in respect of their individual practice areas. We understand that the new guidelines will be available through the usual legal online resources shortly. However, this guide can list examples of what you could claim under special damages. A few of these include: Payouts for road traffic injuries may be lower if the at-fault driver can't be identified or is uninsured. These claims are usually handled by the Motor Insurers Bureau (MIB), which may use a different tariff scale for compensation. Calculating compensation for a work injury

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The Judicial College Guidelines are not particularly straight forward and therefore the Claimant should always discuss the value of general damages with their Instructing Solicitor. After the Event (ATE) insurance is an integral part of any no win, no fee agreement. ATE covers the defendant's legal costs if you lose your claim. You only pay for the ATE premium if you win, and the cost is deducted from your compensation. Your solicitor will need to collate more information about your situation to be able to give you a more detailed idea of your potential personal injury compensation amount. Compensation figures for criminal injuries differ from personal injury claims. Therefore, we’ve created the below compensation table using recommended awards from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012. Injuries

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You may wonder what is the average payout for a personal injury claim in the UK. As compensation is awarded on a case-by-case basis, we can’t offer an average amount for personal injury claim payouts. This is because every payout is unique, and calculated based on the individual circumstances of each case. Our Road Accident Compensation Calculator factors in special damages like rental car or repair costs. Split liability deductions are also more common in road traffic accidents. Both solicitors and courts use these tables as a starting point for calculating general damages, factoring in the type and severity of your injury. In this guide, we’ll also discuss compensation in personal injury claims. There are generally two different heads of claim that you can pursue; we explore these in more detail and explain how legal professionals, such as lawyers and solicitors, value each head. If your case fails, you don’t have to pay your lawyer’s fees. If your case wins, your personal injury lawyer will deduct a small percentage from your compensation. This is called a success fee and it’s capped by law.

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You can get in touch with our experienced team of advisers today to further discuss making a No Win No Fee claim. What’s more, they can connect you to our panel of lawyers if you have a legitimate claim. If an agreement could not be reached between the parties to settle the Claimant’s claim, the claim would proceed to a final court hearing. The Judicial College Guidelines would then be looked at by the judge. The latest addition of the judicial College Guidelines is the 14th Edition. Under the Damages (Return on Investment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022, made under section 1 of the Damages Act 1996, the prescribed discount rate to be taken into account by the courts in Northern Ireland when assessing lump sum damages awards for personal injury was raised from -1.75% to -1.5% with effect from 22 March 2022. The text of the Explanatory notes has been updated.