Rollingsons Solicitors: Effective Legal Help for Individuals
One legal issue often leads to another. A divorce may necessitate the purchase or sale of a property or the redrafting of a will. People suffering a disabling personal injury may later experience workplace discrimination.
At Rollingsons Solicitors, we provide all the services most people will ever need from a law firm. Whether you need a divorce lawyer or assistance with an employment law or probate issue, we are here to help.
Our London law firm provides the following services for private clients:
- Personal injury: pursuing maximum compensation for accidents caused by negligence. We specialise in injury claims, arising from motor accidents, accidents at work, public liability (e.g. slipping and tripping,) accidents abroad, clinical negligence, etc. We also handle more serious injuries involving brain and spinal cord injuries.
- Family law: providing knowledgeable support, advice and representation in a sensitive and effective manner for those facing family law issues. We help married and unmarried people with issues such as prenuptial agreements, divorce, separation, division of family assets, civil partnership disputes, matters relating to children, injunctions, etc.
- Residential conveyancing: including the purchase, sale and lease of residential properties.
- Employment law: protecting your interests in unfair dismissal and discrimination claims, redundancy, compromise agreements, employment contracts and restrictive covenants.
- Tax and estate planning: minimising the potential impact of inheritance tax, capital gains tax and income tax where possible.
- Wills and probate: helping you plan for the future, preserve your assets and provide for your heirs; guiding executors through the probate process; contesting a will, etc.
If you need help with a legal problem contact us straightaway. Often time and money can be saved if we can advise at an early stage. You can get immediate help with your problem or discuss your matter with a lawyer, without any obligation, to see if we can help you.
Contact Rollingsons: the Solicitors for You
To arrange a free telephone consultation, please contact Rollingsons by e-mail or call 020 7611 4848. There is no cost and no obligation to find out how we can help. We do not accept publicly funded work.
EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF LORD JUSTICE JACKSON'S PROPOSED LITIGATION COST REFORMS
March 2011 is set to be a very important period for legal reform in the UK as it signified the end of the consultation period on two high-profile government green papers.
Whilst the paper on legal aid has been gathering a majority of the media and public attention, Lord Justice Jackson's litigation cost reforms are set to have an equally wide-ranging impact.
How Lord Jackson would amend litigation costs
Under the current system the losing defendant will pay both the insurance premium, taken out to cover the risk of an unsuccessful claim and the resultant court costs, and the success fee that solicitors can charge in a successful no -win, no-fee (or CFA) claim. The claimant also keeps all damages received.
The new proposals would see claimants unable to recover their insurance or success fees from the defendants, and, it is argued, would leave them vulnerable to high legal bills.
Jackson has further proposed that up to 25% of a successful claimant's compensation could be paid out to solicitors to subsidise lost cases. These fees would previously have been paid by the insurance companies.
What these reforms mean to the consumer
Despite media gaze falling on the changing role of no-win ,no-fee agreements in libel cases, it is in personal injury law that Jackson's reforms are likely to have the greatest impact.
The president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) Muiris Lyons has suggested that there would be a reduced access to justice as a result of these proposals with:
"Solicitors becoming less able to offer no-win, no-fee agreements to someone whose claims are complex, meritorious and difficult to win. Furthermore those most seriously injured, who have no choice but to sue, are likely to lose money from their damages"
A recent survey, conducted by the lobbying group Access to Justice (AJAG), found that a revealing 77% of potential personal injury claimants would not make a claim if they were at risk of paying a defendant's legal costs.
Coupled with this statistic the survey also found that only 19% of people asked were dissatisfied with the current no-win, no-fee structure that Jackson's reforms vehemently threaten.
Rollingsons personal injury solicitors
It is important to understand that, as of March 2011, Lord Justice Jackson's proposals are still to be ratified under UK law and that your rights to claim compensation on a no-win, no-fee basis have not changed.
If you have suffered serious personal injury and would like to make a compensation claim, or require any advice relating to the matter discussed above, Rollingsons team of experienced personal injury solicitors are here to provide you with the relevant solution.
