Solicitor complaint.

[=XDC=FluphyBunny]

Did you get in touch with Fleshlight first before the solicitors? Anyway, hope the chafing has eased up.

 

[stockhausen]

solicitors regulation authority

www.sra.org.uk

The role of the SRA like any other professional body is to protect the reputation of its members, not the interests of the public.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

The whole 'legal aid' thing was a way to extract tax payers money and into solicitors pockets - it was as crooked as it gets, but it looked good for the masses to get free legal assistance in their hour of need - unless ofcourse you were an hard working tax payer because you can't claim it - it was only any good for the scum bags that lived off crime in the main.

I work in Clinical Negligence and when Legal Aid stopped I was told that we would get a lot less claims coming in.
At that time we were on about 125 a year but this last year it has gone up to about 325 because Legal Aid has been superseded by a Conditional Fee Agreement and it's obviously better for the Claimant.

 

[Destination]

Conditional fee meaning win or no fee type stuff Dimple?
Were they not considering stopping such things against the NHS also?

-edit out of interest, of the 325, how many result in a payout, on average?

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Conditional fee meaning win or no fee type stuff Dimple?
Were they not considering stopping such things against the NHS also?

I'm not really sure how it works, I had one of my Solicitors/Managers explain it to me then lost interest
I think it's a type of insurance so the Claimant doesn't have to pay a penny.
The Claimants Solicitor must apply for it and then we get a letter saying they have one for their Client.

I can't see how it can be stopped, if negligence has happened then patients deserve a payout. I'm not a Radiologist but even Stevie Wonder can see stuff on some Images that the Clinicians missed (or didn't look at more like).

-edit out of interest, of the 325, how many result in a payout, on average?

It's hard to say.
We always said that out of 10 Pre Action Disclosures only 1 would go to a Letter Of Claim which is when the Trust Solicitors and NHSLA get involved. That means that 9 out of 10 Solicitors read the disclosure and realise there isn't a case they could win.
I'm not sure of the % of Letter Of Claims that win but when it's got to that point the Solicitors Experts are quite confident of a win so it's down to damage limitation and how much they will take.
I do know we win quite a few when we actually go to court.