Personal Injury Law
John Eastwood asked:
Legal Claim UK is a nationwide network of specialist personal injury law solicitors who are members of the Law Society panel of personal injury experts and will deal with claims using the no win no fee scheme. Compensation is paid in full² and our claims are completely risk free. You will not be asked to pay anything at all as the case proceeds.
Each year in the UK over two million people are hurt in accidents caused by another persons negligence and these include road traffic accidents caused by careless driving and accidents caused by unsafe conditions in a workplace or facility. The civil legal system enables victims of these accidents to seek justice and financial redress for the harm they suffered and provides a way of recovering expenses caused by the accident such as private medical treatment and loss of earnings.
In order to claim compensation for personal injury and loss following an accident it is usually necessary to prove negligence although there are certain circumstances, particularly involving some accidents that occur at work, where it is not necessary to prove negligence because an employer may be absolutely liable for the consequences of certain failures. Negligence exists where there is a duty of care, together with a failure to take reasonable care for the safety of another person. In order to claim damages it is also necessary to show that any losses sustained are reasonably foreseeable and are as a direct result of the accident. Questions of whether or not there has been negligence are best left to personal injury law specialists and our solicitors will give detailed advice at no cost as to your chances of success and the potential value of any claim.
The Limitation Act 1980 sets out the time limits for making a claim and in very general terms a claim must be settled or proceedings must have been issued in a court of law within three years of the accident however there are a number of important exceptions. The three year period does not start running until the age of 18 years and for those with mental incapacity the time may never start to run. Time also does not run until the discovery of the injury or at least until the time that the injury ought to have been discovered with the exercise of reasonable diligence. Limitations matters can be complex and difficult legal issues that require consideration by a specialist lawyer. If you are in any doubt whatsoever you should take urgent professional advice. The golden rule in personal injury claims is to get the action started as soon as possible otherwise the opportunity to claim compensation may be lost forever. Our experienced personal injury law solicitors will give free legal advice on all limitation issues.
Compensation that is awarded is divided into two parts. Special damages represents compensation for those items that can be calculated accurately and includes wages losses and expenses associated with the claim. General damages represents compensation for those items that cannot be calculated with accuracy and must, in the main be assessed. This item includes the pain and suffering for an injury caused as a result of an accident. Pain and suffering is extremely difficult to calculate as money quite simply cannot compensate for physical damage. Judges do however make awards based on previous court cases and for this they refer either to the court records which are often published or to a book called ‘Kemp and Kemp’ which is a digest of all of important compensation awards made over the years. Reference is also made to a government guide for judges and practitioners issued by the ‘Judicial Studies Board’ which sets out to distil all of the previous awards made into a useful guide categorised into different injuries and different degrees of severity.
If you have been injured in an accident within the last three years that wasn’t your fault you should contact us. You will receive a complete professional service from solicitors who specialise in claiming compensation for personal injury caused as a result of an accident.
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Legal Claim UK is a nationwide network of specialist personal injury law solicitors who are members of the Law Society panel of personal injury experts and will deal with claims using the no win no fee scheme. Compensation is paid in full² and our claims are completely risk free. You will not be asked to pay anything at all as the case proceeds.
Each year in the UK over two million people are hurt in accidents caused by another persons negligence and these include road traffic accidents caused by careless driving and accidents caused by unsafe conditions in a workplace or facility. The civil legal system enables victims of these accidents to seek justice and financial redress for the harm they suffered and provides a way of recovering expenses caused by the accident such as private medical treatment and loss of earnings.
In order to claim compensation for personal injury and loss following an accident it is usually necessary to prove negligence although there are certain circumstances, particularly involving some accidents that occur at work, where it is not necessary to prove negligence because an employer may be absolutely liable for the consequences of certain failures. Negligence exists where there is a duty of care, together with a failure to take reasonable care for the safety of another person. In order to claim damages it is also necessary to show that any losses sustained are reasonably foreseeable and are as a direct result of the accident. Questions of whether or not there has been negligence are best left to personal injury law specialists and our solicitors will give detailed advice at no cost as to your chances of success and the potential value of any claim.
The Limitation Act 1980 sets out the time limits for making a claim and in very general terms a claim must be settled or proceedings must have been issued in a court of law within three years of the accident however there are a number of important exceptions. The three year period does not start running until the age of 18 years and for those with mental incapacity the time may never start to run. Time also does not run until the discovery of the injury or at least until the time that the injury ought to have been discovered with the exercise of reasonable diligence. Limitations matters can be complex and difficult legal issues that require consideration by a specialist lawyer. If you are in any doubt whatsoever you should take urgent professional advice. The golden rule in personal injury claims is to get the action started as soon as possible otherwise the opportunity to claim compensation may be lost forever. Our experienced personal injury law solicitors will give free legal advice on all limitation issues.
Compensation that is awarded is divided into two parts. Special damages represents compensation for those items that can be calculated accurately and includes wages losses and expenses associated with the claim. General damages represents compensation for those items that cannot be calculated with accuracy and must, in the main be assessed. This item includes the pain and suffering for an injury caused as a result of an accident. Pain and suffering is extremely difficult to calculate as money quite simply cannot compensate for physical damage. Judges do however make awards based on previous court cases and for this they refer either to the court records which are often published or to a book called ‘Kemp and Kemp’ which is a digest of all of important compensation awards made over the years. Reference is also made to a government guide for judges and practitioners issued by the ‘Judicial Studies Board’ which sets out to distil all of the previous awards made into a useful guide categorised into different injuries and different degrees of severity.
If you have been injured in an accident within the last three years that wasn’t your fault you should contact us. You will receive a complete professional service from solicitors who specialise in claiming compensation for personal injury caused as a result of an accident.
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Tags: Law Specialists, Personal Injury Law
The Knee Joint-Part 3
Jonathan Blood-smyth asked:
The changes which occur as the knee becomes troublesome and develops pain are often due to injury of some kind, perhaps minor. Swelling can occur in the joint after even a minor injury and even a small amount of fluid in the joint can lead to complex side effects within the knee. The synovial joint lining secretes fluid in response to trauma and this fluid is held within the joint capsule, stretching and irritating it further in movement. Once the fluid is present a person tends to hold their knee in the loosest and most comfortable position of slight bend, around 30 degrees.
A permanent or semi-permanent bend in the knee, with a loss of extension, can appear if the knee is kept bent for too long without fully straightening. The medial part of the quadriceps muscle is responsible for rotating the knee into its locking position on full straightening, and if there is a contracture the muscle can waste and lose its strength. As the weakness progresses it becomes harder and harder to extend the knee fully.
Chondromalacia patellae is a commonly diagnosed problem with the cartilage on the underside of the kneecap. Normally the kneecap sits lightly against the groove on the front of the femur and is only strongly pressed against it in loaded movements such as getting up from a chair or descending stairs. If the knee tightens and loses some of its accessory movements then the patella can become more tightly compressed against the femur. This can set up a frictional process between the two bony areas, particularly if there is bow leg or knock knee, where the tibia is rotated abnormally or where one leg is longer than the other.
The joint surface of the kneecap can develop increased irritability and this limits the willingness to keep a bent knee for any time, preferring to straighten it to reduce the force. As increased forces bear on the kneecap, the articular cartilage lining it changes and becomes lined and fluffy instead of hard and smooth. Further irritation is provided by increased swelling in response to the joint surface changes, with grooves developing in the cartilage as it worsens. Subluxation of the patella, where it moves out of its groove to some degree, can occur with sudden movements such as turning and twisting.
If the patella subluxes this is a sudden and extremely painful event which traumatises the surfaces of the joint and can result in considerable pain and swelling of the knee. The kneecap usually subluxes or dislocates to the outside and this stretches the tissues which support the knee on the inner side, making them weaker and allowing the abnormal patellar movements to occur more commonly. In severe cases the patella can dislocate repeatedly which can be disabling and various operations are used to improve matters. The tissues can be tightened up on the medial side, known as reefing, to attempt to hold the kneecap more over to the inside.
A more major operation, performed if the more minor ones do not work, is to take the tibial tubercle, the bump centrally below the knee on the shin bone, and move it to the side, usually medially. This realigns the direction of the forces the quadriceps exerts across the kneecap and is designed to make the kneecap track more towards the inside. Arthroscopic investigation of the knee shows a softened, fissured surface under the patella as the cartilage becomes increasingly damaged. The joint inflammation and pain inhibits the quadriceps muscle from working, causing wasting.
The knee become gradually less supported as the main thigh muscle weakens and wastes, with going down slopes and stairs more difficult as these activities involve the imposition of greater forces across the patello-femoral joints. When we go downhill the quadriceps has to lengthen as it controls the body weight and this is a more stressful process than activities which involve muscle shortening.
The articular surface of the patella can be cleaned up surgically in a procedure known as arthroscopic debridement but the outcome is not always helpful. Approximation of the joint surfaces by exercises or manual pressures is used by physiotherapists but these techniques are not well supported by scientific evidence.
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The changes which occur as the knee becomes troublesome and develops pain are often due to injury of some kind, perhaps minor. Swelling can occur in the joint after even a minor injury and even a small amount of fluid in the joint can lead to complex side effects within the knee. The synovial joint lining secretes fluid in response to trauma and this fluid is held within the joint capsule, stretching and irritating it further in movement. Once the fluid is present a person tends to hold their knee in the loosest and most comfortable position of slight bend, around 30 degrees.
A permanent or semi-permanent bend in the knee, with a loss of extension, can appear if the knee is kept bent for too long without fully straightening. The medial part of the quadriceps muscle is responsible for rotating the knee into its locking position on full straightening, and if there is a contracture the muscle can waste and lose its strength. As the weakness progresses it becomes harder and harder to extend the knee fully.
Chondromalacia patellae is a commonly diagnosed problem with the cartilage on the underside of the kneecap. Normally the kneecap sits lightly against the groove on the front of the femur and is only strongly pressed against it in loaded movements such as getting up from a chair or descending stairs. If the knee tightens and loses some of its accessory movements then the patella can become more tightly compressed against the femur. This can set up a frictional process between the two bony areas, particularly if there is bow leg or knock knee, where the tibia is rotated abnormally or where one leg is longer than the other.
The joint surface of the kneecap can develop increased irritability and this limits the willingness to keep a bent knee for any time, preferring to straighten it to reduce the force. As increased forces bear on the kneecap, the articular cartilage lining it changes and becomes lined and fluffy instead of hard and smooth. Further irritation is provided by increased swelling in response to the joint surface changes, with grooves developing in the cartilage as it worsens. Subluxation of the patella, where it moves out of its groove to some degree, can occur with sudden movements such as turning and twisting.
If the patella subluxes this is a sudden and extremely painful event which traumatises the surfaces of the joint and can result in considerable pain and swelling of the knee. The kneecap usually subluxes or dislocates to the outside and this stretches the tissues which support the knee on the inner side, making them weaker and allowing the abnormal patellar movements to occur more commonly. In severe cases the patella can dislocate repeatedly which can be disabling and various operations are used to improve matters. The tissues can be tightened up on the medial side, known as reefing, to attempt to hold the kneecap more over to the inside.
A more major operation, performed if the more minor ones do not work, is to take the tibial tubercle, the bump centrally below the knee on the shin bone, and move it to the side, usually medially. This realigns the direction of the forces the quadriceps exerts across the kneecap and is designed to make the kneecap track more towards the inside. Arthroscopic investigation of the knee shows a softened, fissured surface under the patella as the cartilage becomes increasingly damaged. The joint inflammation and pain inhibits the quadriceps muscle from working, causing wasting.
The knee become gradually less supported as the main thigh muscle weakens and wastes, with going down slopes and stairs more difficult as these activities involve the imposition of greater forces across the patello-femoral joints. When we go downhill the quadriceps has to lengthen as it controls the body weight and this is a more stressful process than activities which involve muscle shortening.
The articular surface of the patella can be cleaned up surgically in a procedure known as arthroscopic debridement but the outcome is not always helpful. Approximation of the joint surfaces by exercises or manual pressures is used by physiotherapists but these techniques are not well supported by scientific evidence.
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Tags: Contracture, Willingness
