The true cost of bringing a legal claim

Deborah Evans, chief executive of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, writing in the New Law Journal, stated:

“The truth is, only claimant lawyers know the true cost of bringing valid claims.”

This is a startlingly frank admission and proves what I have long suspected: claimant bills of costs are unlikely to give any clue as to the work actually done on a claim.

4 thoughts on “The true cost of bringing a legal claim”

  1. I’m fairly certain my local mechanic makes up a large portion of his fees and I ultimately get ripped off.

    Thankfully, he doesn’t get an uplift based on the grossly overstated complexity of fixing the head gasket.

  2. Have you ever tried to replace a head gasket? Damn tricky, I can assure you. And if you’re replacing it on a Bentley V8, it’s a whole different story from a Ford Focus, as the price will reflect.

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