Case Assessment

While this may appear to be a lengthy time frame, putting together a successful claim takes a significant amount of time. You have to become aware of the injury and that usually only happens some months after the injury and often victims need time to get over the injury and recover and recuperate before they are ready to consider taking legal action.

Once a victim contacts us, we require a statement setting out the facts of the matter and we will perform an initial legal and medical screening of the case. If after this screening, we believe that this is a case that merits further investigation, full medical records will have to be taken up, independent medical experts will have to be engaged to review those records and the experts will have to provide a formal written report for the court that in their expert opinion, medical negligence has occurred.

Then barristers have to be engaged and complex legal proceedings have to drafted. Only then can the claim actually be submitted to the court. While we have streamlined this process as much as possible, it does take a significant amount of time. Therefore if you think you have a medical negligence claim, please get in touch with us as soon as possible – the success of your case depends upon contacting us as soon as possible.