When you are pregnant and giving birth, you rely on medical professionals to provide the support that you and your child need. Unfortunately, mistakes are all too common, and when things go wrong during child birth, the consequences can be devastating.
If you or your baby have been injured during childbirth, our specialist child birth injury solicitors in Manchester can support you to pursue a compensation claim, allowing you to access the best support and treatment.
At Ashtons, we appreciate that experiencing a birth injury can be extremely distressing. Our solicitors always provide empathetic and compassionate support, easing the stress where possible, during this truly difficult time.
Whilst we know that receiving compensation does not take back the traumatic experience you’ve gone through, and any ongoing health complications you or your child may have, securing compensation can certainly help you to improve the quality of life of both yourself and your child, and ease the financial burden of specialist health treatment.
At Ashtons, our birth injury solicitors in Manchester can provide you with:
- Free initial consultation for your birth injury claim
- No win no fee or Legal Aid funding
- A negotiation-led approach that means most claims are settled out of court
- Independently accredited expertise you can trust
- A very high track record of successful claims
- A sensitive, personal service to support you during this difficult time
- A free rehabilitation service to aid your child’s or your recovery.
Contact our Birth Injury Claims Solicitors in Manchester
To make a birth injury claim, please contact our experienced birth injury solicitors in Manchester. You will be offered a free initial consultation to sensitively discuss the particulars of your case and plan the potential next steps.
You can get in touch by calling 0330 191 5711, emailing enquiries@ashtonslegal.co.uk or filling in the enquiry form on the right-hand side of our contact page.
Our Birth Injury Claims Compensation Service
Assessing your birth injury claim
When you get in touch with our birth injury claim solicitors in Manchester, we will start off by reviewing the details of your birth injury.
We will ask you to share what happened, and the way that the incident has impacted you and your child. Where we consider that the claim has a reasonable chance of success, we will explain the appropriate processes and funding options available to you.
Building your birth injury medical negligence case
Our birth injury compensation claims solicitors will start building your case by collecting the necessary evidence, any witness statements, assessing your medical records, and consulting with medical experts.
These processes mean that we can gain a detailed understanding of what happened, the injuries sustained, and how these have impacted your own health, and/or that of your child.
To learn more about how our birth injury compensation claims work, please get in touch.
Submitting the Letter of Claim
Where your solicitor believes that you have the basis of a birth injury claim, they will draft a Letter of Claim and send this to the Defendant. The Letter of Claim is used to outline the allegations, detailing how the injury could have been prevented if not for the negligence.
If liability is admitted by the Defendant, your birth injury solicitor will start work on valuing your case and securing a settlement. Your solicitor will also organise interim damage payments to cover your immediate health care needs.
If the Defendant disputes liability, our team in Manchester will work with you and our trusted experts to review their denials. Where our experts still support the negligence claim, we will issue Court proceedings on your behalf and continue to attempt to resolve the claim. Even when Court proceedings are issued, most claims will settle without the need for trial, but in some circumstances, a trial might be required.
Mediation processes
Where the Defendant has taken responsibility, our birth injury claims solicitors will negotiate a settlement through arbitration or mediation processes. Our lawyers have extensive experience in birth injury cases, and have an excellent track record of securing high levels of compensation.
Court processes
Where matters cannot be resolved using mediation, Ashtons Legal can represent you at trial. We work with incredibly knowledgeable and talented barristers, we guarantee that you will have excellent support and representation, and are well prepared for the processes.
To discuss birth injury compensation claims in Manchester, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Free rehabilitation service
We understand that our clients may need specialist health care and rehabilitation support, before they are able to receive interim damages. Our expert birth injury solicitors work alongside our rehabilitation team to offer our clients a free rehab service, no matter if their claim is successful or not.
Why work with Ashtons Legal?
At Ashtons Legal, we have ample experience assisting clients with a diverse range of birth injury claims. We have a fantastic track record of success and a knowledgeable team, with a in depth understanding of these cases.
Cases such as these are both sensitive and complex, which is why working with a specialist pregnancy negligence lawyer is recommended.
With Ashtons Legal, you’ll benefit from working with a friendly, passionate, and highly accredited legal team. Senior members of our team are recognised by APIL as either Senior Fellows or Senior Litigators, they are on the Law Society Clinical Negligence panel and Sharon Allison, our Head of Medical Negligence, also belongs to the AvMA Clinical Negligence Panel.
We have much experience working with clients to secure birth injury compensation claims in Manchester and can answer any questions or concerns you have.
Birth Injury Compensation Claims Fees
‘No win no fee’ birth injury claims
Our birth injury negligence lawyers provide a ‘no win no fee’ birth injury claims process. This means that, you will not need to pay for your legal fees unless your case is successful and you are awarded compensation. If you win your claim, most of your costs will be covered by the Defendant. Before you sign any agreement for us to act on your behalf, the level of your contribution to your fees if you win will be explained to you.
If you are unfortunately unsuccessful, you will not pay a fee for your legal representation.
Legal aid for birth injury claims
Legal aid is a public funding option used to cover legal costs. The Legal Aid Agency funding is intended to support children who suffer from brain injuries arising either before their birth or in the first 8 weeks of their life. At Ashtons Legal, we can provide legal aid funding for clients who are eligible. When you contact us regarding your birth injury compensation claim, we can provide more information about this.
Contact our Birth Injury Claims Solicitors in Manchester
To make a birth injury claim, please contact our experienced birth injury solicitors in Manchester. You will be offered a free initial consultation to sensitively discuss the particulars of your case and plan the potential next steps.
You can get in touch by calling 0330 191 5711, emailing enquiries@ashtonslegal.co.uk or filling in the enquiry form on the right-hand side of our contact page.