Is there a time limit to my claim?

From the date of your accident, you have three years to try and settle the claim without raising a Court action; if the claim is not settled within these three years, a Court action must be raised before the end of that period, otherwise your claim will be legally time barred and your chance of claiming is lost forever.

You must always be aware of this time limit; if the end of the three years is approaching and you have not heard from your lawyer that a Court Action has been raised, you must contact him to make sure this happens. There have been cases of clients not contacting lawyers in time and finding that nothing can be done even though they have sustained a serious injury. Likewise there have been cases referred to us where lawyers have forgotten to raise a Court action within the three years, and in those cases the client has had to claim from the lawyer and not from the person causing the injury.