17th May 2008

Catch phrase

If I had a pound for every time a client said to me that they wouldn't have come to see a lawyer if their employer had paid them after they'd been injured at work...

Prove it

Except for a few instances, the burden of proving everything is on the injured party...

Pure accident

There is no such thing as risk free living, and sometimes you just have to accept that an accident occurs without there being any legal blame against someone else...

Expert advice

If I had a pound for each time I heard someone say, “The bloke down the pub reckons that...”

Behind bars

Well not quite, but people have a fear of courts and the legal process...part of our job is to offer reassurance and demystify the whole process...

It's not the money

“It's not the money it's the principle” ...However, the result of a successful claim is an award of compensation and bringing a claim is unlikely to change attitudes or improve safety.