Any kind of occupation requires dedication and hardwork. Negligence solicitors are some of the professionals who are dedicated to their profession. It is fueled by their passion to help victims of negligence. How big is that responsibility?

The answer is as big as the impact of the harm on the person’s life. Imagine a person who sustained an injury due to medical negligence. It is such pathetic situation. That person experienced pain and suffering due to someone’s mistakes. It affected his health and personal life. The treatment is supposed to cure him. Unfortunately, it weakens his body. Emotional distress disturbs him as he deals with the effect of that injury. His relationship with family, friends and other people are affected. Illness prevents him from coming to work. Attending treatment and taking medication are burdensome for him. Financial problems come in. Loss of earnings, additional expenses and bills adds stress to it. He is not supposed to be in that situation. This is the reason why he needs to be compensated for the injuries he sustained from the incident. Negligence solicitors play a vital role in obtaining compensation for the injured person. That’s how big it is.

Herculean Task of Lawyers

To say that the work of negligence solicitors is considered a Herculean task is not exaggerated. Well, it is not easy to act as legal representative for someone who suffered injuries due to medical negligence. 

This is a battle of a professional against a professional’s principles and capability to prove his stand on the situation. A case of medical negligence requires knowledge and experience in both legal and medical aspects. It such an enormous task that requires sufficient time to study, research, investigate and analyse. Long hours of studying about personal injury particularly about clinical negligence are needed. The UK laws needs to be properly dissected including the rules and regulations. This should be interpreted to the client. The rights and obligations of claimant need to be explained in simple and clear language. Extensive research and investigation are involved in processing the claim. Pieces of evidence such as medical report, proof of loss of income, receipts and expenses related to the injuries are knitted together to make a strong case. The lawyers spend time in analysing and evaluating the case. Hardwork pays off when the claimant obtains the compensation he deserves. This is such a Herculean task for lawyers.

If the deck of an Aircraft Carrier is the busiest and most dangerous part of the entire ship, the Emergency Room, or ER, is the counterpart inside a hospital. In fact, it may even be worse because Emergency Rooms can be highly unpredictable.

No one can predict when a gunshot victim, the result of a robbery, will come in. Nor can anyone predict when multiple construction workers, injured by a collapsed building, will come in.

From a relaxed environment where doctors and interns get to pretend that wheelchairs are bumper cars, the place changes in to a serious area full of wild activity. Doctors will be shouting; nurses will be running; relatives will be crying; and patients may be dying.

It is during this time that patients are at their most vulnerable. And any mistake, even a minor one, by healthcare professionals, can dictate whether a person lives or dies.

And when a patient does die, the attending physicians will always end up saying that they did all that they could for the patient. And that dying was just not something they could hold back, given the seriousness of a patient’s injuries.

Naturally, questions will be asked by the surviving relatives. And it is possible that the truth will be obscured by healthcare professionals in order to protect their jobs.

Given this lack of cooperation, surviving relatives may have to resort to filing for medical negligence compensation just so they can learn the truth of what happened. And with the truth, the surviving ones may begin to find closure.

The Courts and Impressions
Entertaining speculations is not something that
the courts will ever do, whether the subject at bar be accident claims or
property claims. It belies the entire tradition of the judiciary to determine
cases based purely on facts, to invite motions for reconsideration based purely
on new facts, and to prevent new readings of former cases in the lack of these.
Some people see this fact-based approach of the courts to be too restrictive and
unimaginative. They think that the courts are abusing their privilege of
arbitrating cases by applying rigidly only one standard.


These people are erroneous. In the first place, although using this approach
may be too restrictive, restrictiveness in this case is only for our collective
good. Surely, no one would deny that an interpretation based on a complete set
of facts is much better than one made based on an imperfect set of facts. Do
these people think that lies, for the sake of variety, should supplant or share
the stage with the truth? Second, as regards the charge of want of imagination,
these people should know that the courts is not the place to conjure up
fantastic and chimerical facts merely to satisfy anybody’s creative hunger. The
courts were established to elucidate the truth. If drab methods are the most
effective ways wherein they could do this, then that should not be ascribed as a
fault to them. They are just doing their jobs.


Predictability in Law
Why is it exactly that the courts do not permit
speculations to be included in judicial deliberations? For what reason can
judges restrict such meetings, whether about accident claims or not, to bare
facts? The main reason is that cases decided upon taking into account mere
speculations is tantamount to denigrating the search for truth into the search
for the most popular make-believe. The courts, if ever they are genuinely
interested in deciding cases justly, are right in refusing to take in
speculations because they are, strictly speaking, neither true nor false, and
only those which have been proven true can be talked and written about
intelligently.


Here is a practical dilemma. Suppose we were to decide right now that
speculations should have the same weight or force as a proven statement of fact.
Then what can prevent claimants or defendants from accusing each other of the
worst things they can possible conjure up, for it must be granted that man’s
imagination when once fired up and bound by no rules can stretch to endless
leaps and lengths? How can the courts transact their businesses when the first
step in judicial procedure, the statement of facts, will never be at a close?
Furthermore, how will the outcome of such a case be treated? Any way, we think,
except seriously.

Claims for clinical negligence require evidence to prove its validity. A person who intends to file a claim needs to submit the needed information to the medical negligence solicitors.

Medical negligence solicitors need important information in assessing the situation such as the date of the accident or the “date of knowledge” wherein the symptoms of injury or illness becomes apparent and the date admitted to the emergency or hospital including the name and address of the hospital. In addition to this, the contact details of the doctors who attended during the treatment should be submitted. This includes the complete name, business address and phone numbers of the doctor. The names, addresses and phone numbers of the witnesses are also included.

Apart from this, there are pertinent documents that should be submitted by the injured person to the lawyers. The medical statement from the doctor who attended during the consultation and treatment is vital evidence that can be presented in court. A written statement from the witnesses can help in the investigation and will serve as a proof. Other documents include medical bills, receipts of items bought because of the injuries and other expenses incurred due to the injury or illness. These documents can be used as evidence in bringing a claim.

Info about the Claims Process

Medical negligence solicitors are responsible in the claims process. 

The appointed lawyer will assess the information and documents submitted by the client. A discussion about the litigation process will be clearly explained. The lawyer will conduct investigation and gather evidence. He will prepare the correspondence to the concerned parties. 

A letter of claim will be sent to the offending party. It contains the summary of the incident including the nature of the injury or illness and the financial loss incurred by the client. The claimant’s complete name, full address and details of the incident and injury suffered by the victim are also indicated in the correspondence.

Another correspondence is the letter of instruction to the medical expert. It contains the information about the claimant and the request for medical examination. Specific details should be indicated like the type of injuries, treatment, current condition, prognosis, duration of pain, effect of the injuries or illness on one’s daily activities and the recovery period of the victim. The medical report is considered as strong evidence in seeking for compensation. A lawyer’s ability to provide valuable advice can help in achieving the right compensation. It is essential to ask for an expert legal advice to attain the main goal. 

Solicitors and Professionals
A good question to ask when determining whom to ask regarding your accident at work claim is whether or not you should consult a professional or just a law school student. Although people who have the luxury of such a choice are rare since not many people have acquaintances or relatives studying law, it is still pertinent to ask because there are corresponding advantages no matter whom you choose.

For one thing, it is not entirely a bad idea to consult with a law school student because in our educational system, those who have graduated from law-related courses but are still completing their education to become a barrister can offer legal advice even though they cannot offer legal representation yet. Thus, if all you need is advice, then approaching such students can be an enlightening experience. Most of all, such advice can even be dispensed with for free or at a much lower cost than with that of a professional’s. On the other hand, the advantages of asking a professional is that you can be assured that the opinion he will give you is sound and that if you do choose to file a claim that you can trust him to represent you, assuming of course that your case is meritorious.

Vices of Each
It has occurred to not a few that maybe instead of consulting with an accident at work lawyer, they should just approach their relatives or friends currently studying law and ask them whether or not they should file a claim. Aside from the possibility of getting free advice, they could also be enlightened as to their cases’ chances of winning with the same amount of certitude as with a professional. In these senses, asking students may not be a terrible idea.

There are several risks in doing so, however. For one thing, students, as opposed to professionals, do not really possess a complete picture of our jurisprudence yet. Since they are still in the process of learning it, their advice may be imprecise. They might tell you, for example, that you may be compensated for your accident, but this advice may be rendered nugatory without any of you knowing it, because it might be covered by an exception clause, a clause that law school students will not be cognizant of yet except in their final year in law school. This example may be multiplied many times because law school subjects tend to overlap. What is studied now will probably be modified next year. This is a normal process because the law is such a variegated subject and cannot be compartmentalized as neatly as other subjects, such as mathematics or science.

Here’s for the health buff. 

Online news recommends 10 healthy veggies and fruits juices which include beetroot juice, tomato juice, pineapple juice, cucumber juice, carrot juice, cranberry juice, grapefruit juice, pomegranate juice, mixed vegetable juice and cherry juice.

Just by reading a variety of juice makes you crave to get one. Good news is that it satisfies your cravings and at the same time it’s healthy and nutritious too. Here’s why…

Beetroot is rich in nitrate and lowers blood cholesterol. Tomato is enriched with lycopene and helps fight cancer. Pineapple juice is a good source of vitamin C which is also anti-inflammatory and boosts the immune system. Cucumber contains nutrients like Vitamin A. It also contains sodium that helps balance electrolytes in the body. Carrot has beta carotene that converts to Vitamin A. Cranberry helps cure urinary tract infection. The fat-burning properties of grapefruit makes it’s a healthy diet drink. Pomegranate is like the beetroot that lowers cholesterol and reduces the risk of heart diseases. Mixed veggies like spinach with berries and bananas or any variation is also healthy. Last but not the list is cherry which helps fight cancer and lowers cholesterol. Berries contain antioxidants plus anti-inflammatory properties.

These veggies and fruits are easy to get. You can just pick it from the garden like the tomatoes or grab it from the shop. It’s also easy to prepare. Just pick, slice and mix. That’s it! You can enjoy a healthy drink. Making your own juice or smoothies is healthier than artificially-flavored drink. You can make a variety of flavours based on your taste. 

Before you indulge with any healthy drink, you should inform your doctor about your diet. Some fruits like grapefruit have effects when taken with certain medicines. Doctors are expected to inform and warn their patients before prescribing a medicine. Medical negligence may arise as a result of wrong prescription of medicines. Victims of this type of case consult injury claims solicitors for legal assistance in claiming for compensation for the damage. 

So which one of the drinks you prefer? Slurp it and enjoy it with ice!

A Question of Plausibility
What is it really that moves the courts to determine whether or not accident at work claims are valid? For surely, being the bastion of logic and rationality, they do not just rely on mere feeling to decide cases. The answer is plausibility. Simply speaking, the courts make up their minds as to the merits of a claim by asking how close to the actual facts of the case is the version being stated by the claimant and the defendant. That is the root, the cornerstone. If we were to reduce the entire complex process of judicial interpretation in one line, we would say that it was the final product of a metaphysical tug-of-war between credibility and impossibility.

To win your claim, therefore, you should strengthen that side of your argument which deals mainly with establishing the plausibility of your story, and reserve for the end that part which attacks the character of the defendant, whether overtly or subtly. By showing the courts how easy to believe your story is, and by only adding so much criticism of the defendant’s character, what you are in fact doing is to prove by your own example. You are in effect telling them that you trust the truth to win your claim.

Ad Hominem Fallacies
Some people demanding accident at work claims disbelieve that ad hominem attacks against their employers are fallacious. For them, proving that their employers were irresponsible and careless even before the accident occurred is one positive point that should be taken in these claimants’ side. A person, they say, who can be proved to be habituated to a certain vice is highly suspect of committing an injurious act in which that certain vice was indeed evident. It does not take a genius to see that there exists, even prior to any legal investigation, that there is a high probability that a broken vase and a clumsy person had some destructive relation.

The answer to these charges, in fact the answer to all character smearing, is the fact that people change. Of course a person who was known to have been expressive of a certain attitude can be expected to continue expressing that same attitude in the near future. The psychological induction which we every day apply regarding others is almost always right. But the human soul and the human mind, unlike objects which can be reduced to laws by induction, are never in stasis. Who can say that a person will not choose to stop acting in a vicious manner starting tomorrow, even if he has done so today? Character assassination is thus untenable. It disregards the unlikely but possible shift in attitudes even by people with low morals.

Service – this is the word that describes their work. Occupations that render their skills and expertise are hired to take a job to carry out a specific task.

Take the case of medical negligence solicitors who are assigned to provide legal assistance to victims of personal injury. They are chosen to represent their client in a case which they specialised.  A victim of a medical negligence was unfairly treated by a doctor. This doctor is expected to act professionally. Sadly, he was the cause of the pain and suffering experienced by an innocent person. Although it’s seems hard to trust another professional, the victim tried to entrust his legal concern to the solicitor. Hoping to get compensated for the harm he suffered. Good thing that the counsel was very professional in every way. At last, he was duly compensated. Thanks to the kindness and support of the solicitors.

Another admirable occupation is a social worker. It is one of the jobs that are so stressful yet when you look at them, they find joy and fulfillment whenever they help an individual finds shelter and family. Some may stay with them for a short period while some others leave. The service provided by social workers is admirable. They are an inspiration to many.

A teacher is one profession that is fueled by passion. It’s a passion to teach and instill new things that will shape the life of a child. Wow! That’s admirable! 

Nurses are hardworking people. From sun up to sun down, they serves as angels to the patients. They take care of ailing patients whose movements are limited. They are the hands and feet of a patient. They work diligently to avoid the patient from stress.

Architects are hired because of their intelligence in designing and coming up with a stylish and yet functional buildings and residences. Their artistry is mastered with years of study and experience. 

Each one is important in his own chosen field. They bloom and flourish in their careers. All because of passion. Passion to serve and help. Now, that’s really admirable.

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.

Irony and the Like
Rhetoric is an invaluable tool in persuasion. Devised by ancient philosophers as a way to control the unruly mob they encountered when pleading for public or private causes, this field introduces students to the considerations that surround the construction of arguments, the positioning of points, the elements of style, the techniques of elocution, and the art of memorization. A master in this field, a rhetorician, is someone who can invent arguments quickly, marshal them according to his audience’s disposition, clothes them with figures of speech and schemes, and delivers them with the attitude he needs to project, assisted only by a smattering of notes. If your lawyer has these qualities, then you can rely on him to win your cases, for example, your whiplash accident claim.

A good subject included in the study of Rhetoric as well involves the invention and application of jests. Many claimants, unaware that the courts do not merely encourage but positively demand respect, find out too late that jokes, witticisms, obscenities, and ironical statements are unwelcome and can even be a cause for being held in contempt. Although these techniques are effective outside the courts, particularly in our mass media, they are taboo in formal settings, such as courtly proceedings. If you have used them before to escape conflict, you cannot use them here because it will only worsen your position.

Examples of Parallelism
What is parallelism? In language studies, it is the orderly positioning of coordinate grammatical elements. Thus, adjectives should be paired with other adjectives, nouns with other nouns and so on. The final effect of this arrangement of material is that our works will receive grace, clarity, and elegance. These considerations may seem to be impertinent for people filing accident claims, such as a whiplash accident claim, but the irrelevance is only formal, not substantial. For the truth is that the orderly arrangement of our words also has a persuasive force.

Yes, words that follow close parallelism can convince more than those which are not, and as it is the conviction of the minds of the judges trying your case that you are after, then parallelism, as with all the other rhetorical strategies you can find and apply, will always be matters you should be concerned with. Why are paired words and thoughts more striking than those uttered or written loosely? The answer is that out minds are so constituted that it generally tends to like that which is orderly and rhythmic than that which is disorderly and cacophonous. The former sounds are peace-driven while the latter are usually portents of danger. A murmuring brook signals its safety with its silent whispers as the thunderous claps of the sky before raining signals danger, even death. The psychology is similar, though more subtle.