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The North West Air Ambulance charity is always on call to take our wounded and ill to hospital quickly and safely. At Thorneycroft Solicitors, we feel passionately about this charity and recognise that, without it, many lives may be lost or greatly affected as a result of not getting to hospital quickly.
Brighton & Sussex NHS Trust has admitted liability and apologised for causing the brain damage of a five year old boy. Unfortunately the midwifery team did not correctly identify that the mothers umbilical cord had prolapsed and the baby was starved of oxygen for some time.
On 23 December there will be a host of talent on display as The King’s School former pupils (and staff) take on a Macclesfield rugby club side in a charity game under lights.
We provide you with initial advice regarding your claim at no cost. From this we can determine the best funding option for your claim, which in many cases will be “No Win No Fee”*.
After assessing your claim, your solicitor will explain to you fully how your claim will be funded, including whether you are covered under any legal expense insurance.
In the event that you have no legal cover, then we can act upon your behalf on a No Win No Fee Agreement which essentially means that if you lose the claim, then you pay nothing towards our legal fees whatsoever.
In the event that we succeed in recovering damages upon your behalf, then we undertake to limit the unrecovered legal fees that you are liable to pay us under the terms of the Conditional Fee Agreement to a maximum of 25% of your damages. ** If the case is lost, we take no fee whatsoever, and therefore nothing is payable by you towards our legal fees.
In the event that you are awarded damages, but fail to beat an offer made by the Defendant’s then you would be ordered to pay the Defendant’s costs up to a maximum of the level of damages that you are awarded, leaving you with nothing. If you take out an After The Event Insurance Policy, which we strongly recommend that you do, then this insures you against losing any of your damages as it covers the Defendants legal costs, subject to its terms and conditions and following our own legal advice on any offers made. In the event that you succeed with your claim, the cost of the Policy is deducted from your damages. However, in the event that you were to lose your claim, the Policy is self insuring, meaning that nothing would be payable by you as the cost of the policy is part of the insurance cover.
Please refer to the home page of the website for more information on frequently asked questions about how your claim is funded under a Conditional Fee Agreement.
*No win No Fee does not apply to criminal injuries, group actions, or accidents outside England and Wales. Subject to compliance with the terms of your funding arrangements.
** Subject to entering into, and complying with the terms of a No Win No Fee Agreement with us.
A water supplier has been fined £400,000 with costs of £41,711 after pleading guilty to breaches of Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. The company has shockingly been at the centre of four previous prosecutions already by HSE; in 1997, 2004, and 2010 and an improvement notice had been served on the company after a fall from a height incident in 2007.
Thorneycroft Director Mark Belfield, who heads up the firm’s Catastrophic Injury team, has been rewarded for all his fundraising efforts by the charity Headway. 200 guests, including 60 children, were invited to a special advanced showing of the much awaited film “Shaun the sheep-the movie” at a Mayfair cinema on Saturday.
Thorneycroft Solicitors are supporting East Cheshire hospice this year by purchasing staff members 4 weeks of lottery tickets.
Emergency services, including two fire crews and a rapid response unit, were called to the site of a two-car crash whereby one of the vehicles had flipped over on to its roof at around 5pm.