Child claims solicitor explains why making a personal injury claim on behalf of a child (a minor) follows a more complicated process than that for an adult, involving both a litigation friend and payment of compensation monies into the Court Funds Office.
Click an image below to select an article describing a particular stage in the child claims process or see our minor injury claims index setting out in order the different steps to claiming compensation for children together with an explanation as to how to claim for the most common types of accident involving children.
Child Accident: How To Claim Personal Injury Compensation For Children Discover how to make a child accident personal injury claim. We discuss the legal definition of a child, together with the time period a child has to start a claim. In addition – find out the purpose of a litigation friend to allow a claim […]
Accident At School: How To Claim Compensation For Your Child’s Injury How to claim compensation for child injury in an accident at school. Both on and off the school premises. Discover the extra safety precautions that should be taken to avoid your child having an accident at school; the most common types of school accident […]
Injury To A Minor: All The Steps To Claiming Compensation For Personal Injury To Children In this article we explain how to claim compensation for injuries to a minor (or child). A minor is the legal name for a person under the age of 18 years in England And Wales. In other parts of the […]
Can Personal Injury Claims Be Made Against Children? Find out when you can make a claim for compensation for injury caused by a child; the responsibility of parents for their child’s negligence; who pays for a child’s negligence; the involvement of the CICA for criminal acts by children: why claiming against children are undesirable. Access […]
Using A Litigation Friend To Claim Personal Injury Compensation In this article we explain what a litigation friend is. You will find out when you need a litigation friend to help you claim compensation; who can be your litigation friend; how one is appointed; why the court must be involved to approve the settlement of […]
Accident Child Claim: How to win compensation for a UK accident involving your child despite your child trespassing on another’s property or land Accident child claim: Find out when an accident occurs how your child can still claim compensation despite being considered a trespasser in the eyes of the law – several examples are given. […]
Child Injury Claims: UK Solicitor summarizes all the steps to claiming compensation and how the claims process differs than that for claims involving adults Child injury claims: Discover all the steps to making child injury claims in the UK, detailed pages setting out each type of common child accident, FAQ’s from previous site visitors with […]
Parental Indemnity: Is this the proper way to accept compensation on behalf of my child following a road traffic accident when I am his litigation friend? Parental indemnity: I was waiting in Cardiff at a set of traffic lights in my car with my wife and 5 year old child as a passenger when we […]
