Integrity and Jurisprudence
Perhaps a worse thing to do than to disobey the law is to abuse it. In claiming accident compensation, for example, it may be a worse crime to force your lawyer to look for loopholes in the law to accommodate your situation than to merely admit that your case does not have enough of a basis and should be dismissed. In other words, an honorable defeat is better than a qualified victory.

If this is true for claimants, then so much so for judges, the men who are constitutionally mandated to uphold the law. Unfortunately, some of them can be seen to be abusers of the law as well. Instead of looking for loopholes to accommodate a specific side, however, they do so in order to mask inherent and dark prejudices. That is to say, they abuse the law by using it as a mere varnish to cover up their most irrational stances.

This is infinitely worse than being remiss in studying the facts of the case altogether. The reason why is that it makes what is irrational appear as rational. It compounds bigotry with deceit. In the first case, pure and sheer indolence can account for the lack of action. In the other case, it is not indolence, but consistent activity, though aimed at the wrong end.

Double Standards
A way to abuse the law is by applying double standards when claiming accident compensation. By flitting between two hermeneutic traditions, the literal and the dispensational, depending on which approach will better serve our interests is really the highest proof of depravity and untrustworthiness.

These two traditions, if ever we want ourselves to be perceived as honest pleaders, must be kept separate as much as possible, if only because their governing attitudes towards the law is antagonistic. According to the first tradition, the law must be taken as it is, leaving little room for the imagination to supply an ultimate meaning or value or goal. The letter of the law has more authority than its spirit primarily because it is safer to follow that which many people can obviously see than that which they cannot. The spirit of the law, according to this view, if it really has any, is too dangerous a guide to follow because any judge who has enough training in logic and jurisprudence and pervert these sciences and take every law they encounter to mean whatever their prejudices dispose them to feel. The other tradition, on the other hand, balks at the literalist tradition because it reduces us to unintelligent obedience to the law. It arguers that more than simply reading what the law states, we should study what it means. Just because some judges can abuse this privilege should not mean that it should be abandoned altogether. Just because some people put poison in the food they cook should not mean that the whole science of cookery should be abandoned.

Combining these two fields to suit our purposes is a grave transgression, futile, and mendacious.

What is personal injury claims? This is an interesting question that will surely feed more information to the reader. 

The UK Law requirements need to be met in filing for personal injury claims in the UK.

First, it is important to prove the duty of care. A driver owes a duty of care to all road users like other drivers, passengers, cyclists and pedestrian. The same thing is true with the local council who is responsible for the above-mentioned people. An employer owes a duty to take care of his employees. The healthcare professionals are responsible in providing excellent medical treatment to their patients. Second, a breach of duty needs to be proven. Failure to observe traffic law is considered negligence and breaches the duty of care. Non-compliance with the law of health and safety is negligence on the part of the business owner. Wrong treatment is also considered as negligence. Third, an injury or illness arises from the mishap. Finally, causation between the breach and the damage needs to be established.  There must be a link between the two. 

The said requirements can be achieved by the assistance of a legal counsel who is an expert in this specialised area of law.

Types of Claims

What are the kinds of personal injury claims in the UK? The claim can arise from an accident which may occur on the road, at work, in public place or even in hospitals.

A road traffic collision claim compensates for the injuries sustained from an accident caused by others. A passenger, pedestrian or a cyclist can file a formal complaint against the careless driver who caused the crash.

Accidents at work can be claimed for any illness or injury that may occur whilst on duty. An employee can be eligible to seek compensation for the damaged due to the mistakes of a co-worker or an employer. The wrongdoer can be liable for the injury or illness suffered by the person.

Accidents in public claim compensates for the harm experienced by members of the public. Customers or guests can file a formal complaint against the offender. The building occupier or landowner can be liable for the incident.

Medical negligence claim is a compensation for any damage caused by healthcare providers like hospitals, doctors, nurses or dentists. They can be responsible for the injuries sustained by their patient during treatment.

These cases can be complicated and requires the expertise of lawyer, Consult legal advice from the expert.

I understand that as I am not a lawyer, whatever it is that I have to say about lawyering and the courts will not be too convincing. But I used to be a claimant. Therefore, even if I might not possess the technical knowledge requisite in performing legal duties, I have had the experience of watching the same duties performed firsthand.

And from what I saw, our justice system is still far from perfect. Although it is public knowledge that our courts, because of their excruciatingly slowness, will require years to finish a case, this piece of information can only obliquely strike the heart. You must experience this maddening slowness for yourself before you can say that you truly understand it. And be outraged about it.

But I am not here to talk about the courts. Rather, I am here to offer some simple solutions to overcome the indignation which naturally rises up in the soul of any justice-seeking claimant whenever he contemplates our courts’ tortoise speed.

The first is to encourage legal advisors, especially No Win No Fee solicitors, not just to talk about their clients’ cases but to talk about their lives as well. Many such people are so concentrated on whether or not the claimant’s case has a chance in court that they forget to orient him as to what he should expect when he pursues his claim. My advice is simple: such advisors should make an effort to be extra-honest, the kind of honesty which will leave no room for obfuscation. Nothing could be more depressing and disorienting for claimants that the treatment some No Win No Fee solicitors today are now giving to them. Instead of being talked to as people, they are talked to as potential money-making schemes. Instead of understanding the pain of the client, surveying the emotional terrain so to speak, they jump straight onto the statistics and probability of winning, seeing in the people in front of them not people but pieces of meat that are either plump and juicy or old and dry.

Finally, such advisors should also not raise false hope in their clients. This is what happened to me. My solicitor told me that my case had a good chance of winning. Apparently, the courts thought otherwise. I lost quite a lot of money, but I don’t regret it. I like to think that I did not waste my money, but instead used it all up to buy experience in life.