Legal Rights

Why Claim Compensation?

Although it is impossible to turn back the clock to prevent the suffering, often, bringing a legal action can work to ensure that other people do not suffer in the same way.

• Claims for compensation can help to support a family through the trauma, anguish and distress caused by abuse, mis-use of power and incompetence.
  
  
• Lawyers can play a valuable role in the survivor’s recovery process. The solicitor may be the first person who has heard and validated their experiences by agreeing to act for them.
  
  
• For many, compensation is the only recognition that what happened to them was wrong.
  
  
• For many it is the simple realisation that what they had to tell was the truth and that their problems were not of their own creation.
  
  
• Compensation can assist in re-building lives and can help survivors to cope with the recurrent memories.
  
  
• Compensation may also be helpful in obtaining appropriate counselling and psychotherapy to assist in their treatment.
  
  
• By successfully pursuing cases against organisations, this will make public bodies responsible and will ensure that they will comply with their general duties to act within their powers, follow correct procedures and not act unreasonably.
  
  
• In some cases, speaking out about the abuse can even help to change the law, which will ultimately benefit the public as a whole.

Abney Garsden McDonald Specialist Abuse Litigation Team are able to offer confidential and professional advice on the merits and possible pitfalls in bringing a claim for compensation.

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