If you’ve a possible claim for clinical negligence, sort your legal aid immediately. Or you’ll have to go without…

With new legislation becoming effective from April 1st, clinical negligence specialist Linda Levison urges anyone with a possible case to pursue to take advice about the case – and whether there is legal aid to fund it – before it’s too late…     

What the Justice Bill will really mean: 2. No more legal aid

The so-called ‘Justice Bill’ currently going through Parliament will cause massive problems for claimants in two major areas. By stopping conditional fee agreements (‘no win, no fee’) and recoverability of ATE (after the event) legal expense insurance in personal injury cases. And by removing legal aid in clinical neligence cases.