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This will all depend on the facts of your case, however, in the vast majority of cases this is not necessary. In fact most cases (the massive majority) settle without Court Proceedings ever being issued.<\/p>\n

Even where proceedings are necessary, we find that it may well be that once solicitors are instructed to defend the claim that they take a view that they do not have a strong enough defence to the claim and therefore advise the Defendant that they should immediately settle the injury claim<\/a> before further costs are clocked up; thus even where proceedings are issued we find most of these cases then settle shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

It is simply not in the Defendant\u2019s interests to run a case to a final hearing, especially if they do not feel they have very good prospects<\/strong> of successfully defending the claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This will all depend on the facts of your case, however, in the vast majority of cases this is not necessary. In fact most cases (the massive majority) settle without Court Proceedings ever being issued. 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