It happens that the accident victims fall prey to counterfeit organizations when they approach the court to file compensation claims for the losses and damages they received.
It
happens that the accident victims fall prey to counterfeit organizations when
they approach the court to file compensation claims for the losses and damages
they received. A number of fake legal agencies are subliminally active throughout
the UK
and many of these personal injury
solicitors simply make use of the distressed condition of the accident
victims. SRA or Solicitors Regulatory Authority was established on 29th
of January, 2007 to identify these phony agencies and regulate their
activities. If you are an ill-fated individual who has been suffering pain and
agony because of someone else’s negligence, you should check a solicitor
agency’s credibility with SRA before you finally claim personal injury
compensation through them.
The main objective: to secure public
interest
SRA
currently regulates over 120,000 solicitors in England
and Wales.
Their prime objective is to ‘set, promote and secure’ the behavioral standards
of the mainland UK
based law firms so as to ensure that the clients can benefit from this. Most of
the legitimate and credible personal
injury solicitors adhere to the SRA standards and try to provide the best
possible service to their clients. However, there are still some imitative
agencies that try to make believe the accident victims through colorful
websites and ornate ad copies that they are the best compensation claim
solicitor firms in the country.
How not to get entrapped?
One
easy way to single out a legitimate agency is to ask the agency people whether
they abide by the SRA standards and cross check their version from SRA official
website only. Apart from that, there are some other ways to identify legitimate
personal injury solicitors.
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Firstly, check whether
the agency is offering ‘pro bono’ services. In layman’s terms, pro bono is also
known as ‘no win no fee’ which implies that you need not to cough up until and
unless the verdict goes in favor of you. Reputable solicitor firms offer these
services for the financially distressed and wrongfully injured citizens of the
country.
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Secondly, you need to
check whether the agency has dealt with a similar case in the past. This is not
actually for sort listing trusty agencies, but it will help you play safe and
not waste you r money. If the solicitor or his agency has dealt with similar
case in the past, it means that they have enough knowledge on how to cope with
these cases. Your chances to win the case increase.
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Thirdly and most
importantly, check whether the agency has ill fame or not. For this, you need
to network a little bit and find whether someone in your circle have received a
poor service from the personal injury
solicitors in the past.
How can you help?
Your
duty and responsibility does not actually end when you find a credible
solicitor agency. You need to gather all the pertinent documents that are
required for fighting your case. You should ask a solicitor agency in detail
and then arrange the documents (e.g. photographs and videos of injuries and
property damages etc) and entrust these documents to the personal injury solicitors whenever asked for.
Article Source: http://www.compensationsecrets.co.uk/.
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