The Access to Justice Act or the no win, no fee law was first proposed in 1999 and came into force in 2000. It was designed to make it easier for those with a genuine personal injury case to be able to make a claim more and reduce the financial burden placed upon the government…
Miss S of Retford, Notts, secured significant damages following a motorcycling accident. Miss S was riding pillion in an accident in which the rider of the motorbike was killed. The motorbike struck a car at high speed after the vehicle had emerged from a minor road. Richard Meggitt, Solicitor for ASD dealt with Miss S…
There has much comment in the media about the significant increase in motor insurance premiums over the last year. The insurance industry would have you believe this has been caused by Solicitors and fraudulent claims. The reality is quite different. What the insurance industry fails to mention is that they are the biggest seller of…
ASD Solicitors assisted a woman who had the misfortune to fall through the floor of a chicken coup at her place of work. Our Client was going about her duties and was in fact assisting her boss at the time of the accident. Unfortunately, he had removed a section of the flooring and had failed…
ASD Solicitors have successfully represented a lady who was injured as she went about her duties at work. Our Client was a pattern cutter who was injured when another employee failed to replace a roll of material properly, leaving it sticking out from a work station upon which she was working. She tripped and fell…
Rotherham Mr B, from Rotherham, recovered a substantial amount of compensation following an accident at work. The client had the misfortune to lose his right arm as a result of operating a defective scrap metal machine. The machine should have been fitted with guards. As a result of the serious injuries sustained, ASD referred the…
Mr K was involved in an accident at work whilst delivering incorrectly loaded and packaged stock to a supermarket, resulting in soft tissue injuries to his lower back. At the initial Trial the District Judge found against Mr K and dismissed his claim. ASD disagreed with the District Judge’s findings and advised Mr K to…
ASD Solicitors assisted a labourer to obtain compensation after his left arm was trapped in a machine at work and then subsequently amputated. The client suffered a traumatic amputation of the left arm after being asked to clean a large, cylindrical roller at his place of employment. The guards to the rollers had been deliberately…
ASD Solicitors assisted a butcher from Pontefract to recover compensation following an accident at work. Mr C was injured when he caught his right index finger in a machine at work. It was the client’s case that guards, which should have been in place, had been removed. Liability was initially denied by the insurers for…
ASD Solicitors has assisted a young man to obtain compensation after metal entered his left eye. The client suffered the loss of sight in the left eye while on work placement. He was not provided with any eye protection and the accident occurred when he was watching a colleague operate a machine. Mr A from…
