Once a personal injuries lawsuit is settled, the injured party will be in one of two general situations. Either the party responsible for their personal injuries will have indeed been found responsible for the injuring and the person or persons who filed the claim will receive an award amount based on the evidence of the case.

If it was possible for the lawyer to prove that the other party's actions did indeed injure the claimant, as required by U.K. law, then the personal lawsuit will likely include a settlement that is more than adequate to pay for the damages that the injured individual has suffered.

However, if the case is lost to the defendant, than the claimant may discover that it is their pocketbook that the injuries lawsuit settlement actually injures. The laws in the United Kingdom require that the losing party in a law-suit pays for the other party's legal expenses incurred for defending themselves. Your law firm will have dedicated a lawyer who will have handled the personals of your case and will have done their best to personalise the details of your claim in order to take full advantage of the laws regarding damages for personal lawsuits in Great Britain. But no matter who wins injury lawsuits, both sides have to pay their lawyers.

The client should receive a bill for services rendered within a reasonable time after the work that the lawyer has done is completed. The bill will be composed of three different categories: disbursements, fees and VAT. Disbursements are a list of any money that the solicitor has had to pay while handling your case. This could be for things such as filing fees or barristers' fees. The charges for fees are for the solicitor's professional services. There are court rules that determine what a lawyer can bill for court work, but no such scale regulates fees that are assessed for non-court work. However, the fees must be both fair and reasonable. The third and final kind of charges is VAT. It will be calculated on some disbursements and on the lawyer's fees.

If you receive a bill from your solicitor and you feel that the charges are simply too high, you do have some form of recourse. First, you have the right to ask the solicitor for a written, detailed account of the charges. Some of the charges will be for fixed amounts that cannot be questioned or changed. However, if you pay half of the bill, the VAT and disbursement, you may be able to get the remaining charges reduced or waived. In order to do so, you ask the solicitor to obtain a remuneration certificate from the Law Society. There is no charge for asking the Law Society to consider your bill for remuneration, but there is normally a one month time limit, starting from when you receive the bill, to make the remuneration request. However, the solicitor can agree to waive the time limit. Get more information about this process by contacting the Consumer Complaints Service at 0845 6086565.