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Personal Injury UK is an independent nationwide network of solicitors offering free legal advice on defective products compensation. All of our solicitors use the no win no fee scheme. Our claims are completely risk free and you will not have to pay for any expenses, medical reports or insurance policy. Damages are paid in full with absolutely no deductions.*
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The amount awarded for damages following a personal injury is intended to place person who suffers the injury back into the position that they would have been had the injury not occurred. The UK system relies on consideration of previous awards made in earlier court cases to reach a fair assessment of the valuation of damages. There are records of most of the important claims made in the UK courts and there is a full record of all higher court cases however most solicitors and barristers when assessing the value of personal injuries caused by defective products rely on a publication called ‘Kemp and Kemp’ which is a multi volume guide to previously decided cases throughout the range from minor injury to injuries if the utmost severity. This publication also contains explanations of the law and has copious footnotes to help make the assessment of damages as simple as possible and copies of this book can be found in most solicitors’ offices and in most public libraries.
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When considering the amount to award a judge will consider a number of factors including the extent of the injury, the pain and suffering caused and the extent of any permanent or ongoing disability. In order to calculate the actual amount of compensation a judge will be guided by previously decided cases and by any appeals relating to amounts awarded together with his own personal experience and judgement which will be tempered by a Government publication called 'The Judicial Studies Board Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases' which attempts to distil conventional wisdom of damages awards into a reasonably straight forward digest. This guidance appears to have a tariff system for advising on damages awards however the guidelines cannot be taken on face value as many accidents result in a combination of injuries and it is simply not possible to add the amounts of individual injuries awards together to reach a figure for multiple injuries. Consideration and judgement need to be carefully applied.
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If you have been injured by defective consumer products then you may be able to claim damages. For free advice on no win no fee claims just complete the contact form and a member of The Law Society panel of personal injury experts will telephone you with no obligation. If after speaking to us you decide to proceed no further with your consumer claim then you are quite at liberty to do so and you will not be charged for our advice.
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