Many people think that making a claim is only suitable for those instances where they have been physically injured. However, there are a number of other circumstances where a solicitor may be able to help an individual to win compensation, namely when suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. There is one company that has been offering legal services for many years; they offer compensation Cheltenham services to individuals suffering physical and mental symptoms as a result of an accident or experience.

Post traumatic stress disorder most often occurs when an individual witnesses a serious accident or their life has been put in danger. It often results in a number of symptoms such as nightmares, feeling tense and anxious, insomnia and the avoidance of being in certain situations. In many cases, post traumatic stress disorder can be as severe as suffering a physical injury.

Davis Gregory solicitors understands just how debilitating post traumatic stress can be, therefore they offer services in compensation Cheltenham area. As a company with many years of legal experience, they are well placed to offer excellent advice and support to their clients.

Clients pay absolutely nothing themselves and are guaranteed 100% of any compensation that they win, unless the claim is to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority or it involves an untraced driver when concerning road accidents. Their professional approach works to ensure that the maximum compensation is retrieved.

As individuals suffering from post traumatic stress disorder may feel reasonably fragile, the company always try to make them feel at ease.

For further information about the services in compensation Cheltenham that these solicitors have to offer, take a look around their website. Their friendly reception team are on hand to take your calls and to book you in with one of their solicitors. For an initial appointment, just call the telephone number on their website.

Legal assistants Jan Robinson and Emily James help radio station Heart Gloucestershire celebrate their 1st birthday.

On Friday 2nd October 2009 the Gloucestershire Echo led with a front page story that schools in Gloucestershire have paid out £60,000 in compensation to pupils and parents over the last 3 years. A spokesman for the County Council blamed this on the so-called compensation culture, and regretted that council tax payers had to foot the bill.

Davis Gregory director Tim Howarth was asked to comment on the story, and the Echo reported his comments at length.

“Under UK law, pupils who successfully claim compensation are not entitled to spend the money until they reach the age of 18, and all payouts between the Council and claimants are validated independently by a judge. Hysteria over a compensation culture have led to schools becoming ‘neurotic’ about health and safety.

‘I think people often get the wrong idea with the no win no fee phrase which gets bandied around. In many ways it is better now than it was when we had legal aid, because now solicitors will not take on cases which they do not think they have a reasonable chance of winning. That means the smaller, nonsensical cases which the courts do not like will not make it to that stage.

‘If someone is legitimately injured, why should the child just have to grin and bear it? It is not a case of ‘easy money’ and it does act to concentrate schools’ minds on taking reasonable precautions. As long as you are being sensible, then you have nothing to worry about.”

Welcome to our website, which has been completely redesigned. I hope you find it easy to navigate. Please let us have feedback, good or bad, by clicking on ‘contact us’.

Thank you to everyone who has asked us to help them in the past, and to our many loyal clients who see us as their specialist Solicitors. We have now been here in Rodney Road for all of 32 years. If you have not used us before, we are confident that you will find that we offer a great service and value for money – please take a look at our testimonials page for how our clients feel about us.

We want to be your Solicitors in dealing with your legal work, whether buying or selling a property, planning for the future, or dealing with life’s problems, such as injuries, family breakdown, or bereavement.

Businesses also have problems, particularly cash flow at the present time. If this is not tackled then the business, its staff, customers and the wider community can all suffer. With this in mind, we have been delighted to welcome recently Tim Wheeler and his team who are specialists in recovering commercial debts and dealing with other disputes, using a firm but fair and cost-effective approach.

We look forward to helping you, and if you are delighted with this, do please recommend us to your family, friends and colleagues.

Tim Howarth

6th May 2009

Good news for a business in Cheltenham.

Davis Gregory Solicitors, based in Rodney Road, are expanding. Tim Wheeler, an experienced litigation lawyer, has joined Davis Gregory as a consultant. This is a return to Cheltenham as Tim spent 10 years with Willans in Imperial Square Cheltenham, where the successful department he built up was recommended in the Legal 500. He has recently been based with Whitemans of Gloucester.

Tim is a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives and a Member of the Institute of Credit Management and will be dealing with general civil litigation work and specialising in commercial debt recovery, enforcement and insolvency. Tim is seen as the local expert in this area of work, and acts for businesses in the County and Nationally. He will be joined at Davis Gregory by his two legal assistants, Deb Larcombe and Sarah Bruton.

Cash flow is always important to businesses, and it is essential to survival in a recession. Tim recently gave a talk to the members of the Bristol and West of England branch of the Institute of Credit Management on ‘Surviving the Credit Crunch’, giving tips on how to spot customers who are in difficulties and how Davis Gregory can help when problems arise. If this is of interest to your business then please speak to Tim on 01242 248596.

Tim says “As well as reviewing and tightening up on credit control procedures, businesses need to ensure their terms and conditions of trading are up to date, particularly any retention of title clause whereby sellers retain ownership of goods supplied until they are paid for. The key to successful recovery of your money or return of the goods is speed – you must get in first before other creditors or the insolvency of your customer.”

Davis Gregory provide quality legal services to private and business clients and are well known for the personal, friendly and expert legal help they provide. Davis Gregory’s Director Simon Greener says “We are thrilled to welcome Tim, his legal assistants and his clients to Davis Gregory. Tim is an expert in his field of work and gives straight forward and sound commercial advice.”

Dated 30.4.09