New ‘second look’ claims service proves popular

A team of Manchester barristers have launched a ‘second look’ claims service, which has generated more than 100 instructions already.

Barrister-Direct’s Resolve service provides law firms, credit hire agencies and medical agencies with a complementary second look service on files they are planning to close or abandon.

Launched last month, the service evaluates the claim’s prospects and, where possible, takes the matter on and progresses it until resolution.

If the claim is successful, firms recover their costs and any disbursements received and owing to them.

Having already generated more than a hundred instructions, Barrister-Direct, based at Queen’s Chambers on John Dalton Street, has now launched two new products.

Resolve Serious Injury and Large Loss assists law firms and medical agencies with files due to be closed or abandoned by providing a complementary second look service, while Resolve Credit Hire provides the same service for law firms and credit hire agencies.

Andrew McKie, barrister and director at Barrister-Direct, predicted high levels of interest, but said: “The reaction to Resolve has exceeded our expectations.

“It goes to show that in the current legal landscape, no-one can afford to write off bad debt or fail to recover costs and disbursements.

“Resolve aims to avoid this situation by providing a safety net and the chance of recovery, as well as a lifeline for claims facing abandonment.

“We believe it fills a massive gap in the market – and feedback from clients is exactly the same.”

He added: “We are expecting high levels of interest in our serious injury and credit hire packages.

“There are many reasons to close a file or abandon a matter, ranging from prospects to resources to procedural or factual complexity.

“Our team has decades of experience and a skill for litigation and successful trial work.

“Clients benefit from our knowledge and experience as practitioners and trial counsel – spotting the early winners and maximising the claimant’s prospects of success through factual, legal or expert evidence, fighting common defences and overcoming the hurdles facing many claimants in the current legal landscape.”