How do I work out who is responsible for my injuries?

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How do I work out who is responsible for my injuries?

Solution How do I work out who is responsible for my injuries?
First decide who is responsible for your injury, in law. You will have to analyse your case and think: who acted negligently? Who breached the contract? You may have to do some fact-finding before you come to an answer. You may even have to obtain the opinion of an expert in the relevant field before you can pinpoint who has done wrong or caused you the injury. You may have to do some legal research into breaches of statutory duty. Most of the time, however, the question of liability will be easily answered. Don't forget, however, that you only have limited time to find out who is liable, and to bring a claim against them.

The next question: is there anyone else who may also be liable? There may be more than one person who is responsible for your injury. Not only do you have limited time in which to bring your claim, but the court may not allow you to bring a second claim against a different person relating to the same injury if the first one fails. Suing everyone at the same time in one claim also keeps down the costs.

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Article ID:	94
Category:	Personal Injury
Date added:	15-02-2009 07:24:58
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