Personal injury solicitors can only help you to make claims to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA). If you have been harmed as a direct result of crime such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, rape and other types of assault where the intent was to bring harm to you, or indirectly such as being struck by a criminal leaving the scene of a crime then providing the injuries were the result of a crime within the UK then we can help you to make a criminal injury claim.
The claim will need to have had few things to happen and certain pieces of evidence to be given. Usually the criminal injury compensation authority will require that the person being accused of committing the criminal injury act against yourself has been prosecuted. The crime does not always have to have had the outcome of a guilty verdict or jail time. You will need documentation of your injuries and information if you went to hospital or to your local doctor. It does not matter as to which one but as long as a medical professional has officially documented your injuries there should be no problems for your criminal injury claim. |
