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Articles on Legal Aid (civil) from our blog.
What are the financial aspects of instructing a solicitor in relation to a personal injury claim? When it comes down to it, personal injury claims are about money. That may not be the most important thing to you but it is the way the law looks at these claims. Accordingly, your solicitor’s main aim is …
Choosing the Best Feeing Arrangement for your Personal Injury ClaimRead More
In this article, we will look at the principles which apply when you are deciding how best to investigate and progress a possible claim for personal injury compensation following an accident. In particular, we will try to show how rules which apply to legally-aided cases can illustrate the most economic and efficient way to deal with personal …
Best Practice When Investigating Personal Injury ClaimsRead More
A Guardianship order is a court appointment which authorises a person to act, and make decisions, on behalf of an adult with incapacity (e.g. dementia). If you think you may need to make a guardianship application in respect of a vulnerable friend or relative, you will probably be worried about the possible cost. Should you …
Guardianship Applications and Legal Aid in ScotlandRead More
“Do you do legal aid at Grigor & Young?” We received this question recently via email and realised that, up to now, there has not been any single place on this website where we discuss the situations in which we will take cases on under legal aid.
In a letter to The Herald newspaper, dated 02 February 2015, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers’ Scotland Co-ordinator, Ronnie Conway, has questioned the Law Society of Scotland’s proposal that Personal Injury claims should be removed from the ambit of civil legal aid. The Association (“APIL”) is a not-for-profit organisation which campaigns to uphold and …
Why Removing Personal Injury Claims From Scottish Legal Aid Is A Bad IdeaRead More
