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Thanks a lot appreciate it.

Just to update this thread: My Mum has gone with Leigh-Day now and the claim is proceeding. I will keep updating this thread for the benefit of anyone who's interested and well, cos you peeps have been really helpful and if this case can in any way benefit anyone else in future it'd be worth it...cheers all.

J

Appreciate your good wishes CheeseWheel and another tick in the box for Leigh Day who we're expecting a call from after I contacted them and asked for a callback earlier today.

My mum spoke to someone from cams earlier and she came off the phone feeling quite positive about them but after what you've said PhilDAS about the fact that you're still waiting 2 years down the line for Armstrongs to pull their finger out is somewhat dispiriting but thankyou for mentioning it as we were seriously considering proceeding with them. Not so sure now tbh.

Thanks again to you Harrington and also to you jonH, its beginning to feel as if this is raising more questions than answers but bat on with it we must and all your comments and responses are proving very valuable particularly so far as giving us options we weren't aware of previously.

Hoping to get a call from Leigh Day tomorrow now.

Thanks for this Harrington. Is it right now that it is not possible to claim the entirety of the legal costs from the defendant? And if not would it be possible for there to be quite some shortfall that the claimant would be liable for?

I've also just got in touch with c-ams.co.uk/> to ask for a callback.

This is some really great feedback, thanks everyone very much.

That's helpful thanks Ste_S, we've just been looking at the written info from the solicitor my mum went to speak to yesterday and it says in there that will take 25% of the award but they also talk about a success fee and disbursement costs making their paperwork very difficult to read and at the end of it be sure exactly whats what and how much they want at the end of it.

Thanks Thoma, nice of you to take the time to post.

Appreciate it bazschmaz, she's become very down since it happened and (stating the obvious) is very fearful of getting back on her bike.

Thanks for this jonnydelmundo, I've just contacted them to ask for a callback.

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Thanks for this roadwarrior, I'm going to get in touch with them.

Hey now worries mentioning the helmet thing, we want to know stuff like that.
The solicitor my Mum spoke to yesterday said their fee would be a quarter of the settlement, is that fair enough?
The solicitor my Mum spoke to on Tuesday when my Mum asked about his fee said "Oh don't worry about the fee that comes out of the other guys insurance". But my response to that (I wasn't there at the time I just mean when my Mum told me what he'd said) was what does that mean "it comes out of the guys insurance" cos surely any settlement comes out of the other guys insurance, no?
Thanks so much for the comments so far its all helping begin to understand the process a bit and any further input will be very welcome.

Nice one, thanks mate it's appreciated.

Hi, sorry to just jump straight in but as a matter of urgency I could do with some advice about solicitors, their fees and making a claim in court for compensation following a bike RTA in which the driver has admitted he was at fault and has done so to the police in his witness statement.

The person who was knocked off their bike was my Mum so I'll just make that clear from the off.

A couple of weeks ago she was cycling to her Monday morning exercise class and was knocked off her bike by a car driven by a bloke who has, in short said "I can't understand how I didn't see you but I really just didn't, it was my fault and I take full responsibility for the accident".

He was filtering onto the road my Mum was cycling along from a sliproad off a motorway. He'd stopped at the top of the sliproad at the broken white line where the sliproad meets the road my Mum was on. He stopped there to check the state of the road he was filtering onto, saw a clear route forward and set off.

My Mum had cycled across the end of the sliproad (the sliproad the bloke had driven up and was waiting at the end of) moments before and when the bloke set off from his stationary position at the end of the sliproad my Mum was a few meters to the left of the bloke in the car.

The bloke set off and within a very short space of time he had driven into my Mum hitting her with the drivers front side catapulating her off her bike and into the air. He was travelling at 10mph when he hit her.

To cut a long story short my Mum was admitted to hospital and she was found to have one broken rib a punctured lung and a gash in the back of her head that went down as deep as her skull.

She was not wearing a helmet, usually she does but of course sods law being what it is the day that she doesn't wear one this is what happens. So while there is a lot that I'm sure many people reading this would like to say about the stupidity inherent in the decision my Mum took that morning not to wear a helmet I'd like to ask anyone reading this to please, with respect leave out the whys and wherefores of helmet wearing from this thread that is intended to be a genuine appeal for advice about solicitiors and making a claim following a cycling RTA.

Again, cutting things short what I would like to get some idea of is how much we can expect a solicitor to reasonably take from any award the court makes, we spoke to a solicitor today who said his fee would be a quarter of whatever is awarded, is this about normal, high or low?

Also, we have so far spoken to two firms of solicitors in our home town. Would people say we can potentially expect to receive a perfectly good service from a 'multipurpose' solicitor (I know I'm not using the right terminology here but what I mean is a solicitor that isn't a specialist in cycling accidents but also deals with other types of cases) or is it imperative that we seek out a specialist cycling accident solicitor (if such a solicitor even exists) to get the best possible outcome in a case like my Mums?

I would be massively grateful for any / all help anyone can give me with this and thanks in advance to anyone still reading at this point.

James (North Yorkshire)