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Anon 8.07

My advice is usually along these lines “so mr C, the defendant has dashcam footage of this being barely any movement/I now have your medical records and note u did not attend ur GP/hospital twice as you stated or you failed to mention to the medical expert the accident you had 2 months after the index accident for which you instructed another firm Or those Facebook pictures of you water skiing 1 month after the accident notwithstanding you say you were in fact unable to do anything other than sitting down, in the medical examination etc etc (sure you get the gist) so now it’s litigated, if u go to court and there is an FD the costs due to the Df will be around £5-10k oh and you will have to pay that vehicle damage payment back of £5000 that you’ve already had - but your claim for pi is worth about £2500 at best, they’ve offered you £1000.....”

It will cost me as a law firm another £550 listing fee and counsel won’t do it on a CFA (obviously, maybe because they’re litigation skills just aren’t that good? Who knows) so it’s another £1000-1500 to find out. Oh and there’s that risk at the door when d comes in and says we’re coming for u mr C or you can walk away now and we won’t come after your house and kids.... counsel advises accordingly cos you know they’re already being paid privately so can be home by lunch.

With respect amon, I don’t think your litigation skills can be that good, what it probably is, is that you don’t quite grasp risk vs reward and you are likely giving your clients incorrect advice and u have got lucky a few times....