Three questions that usually decide it
Was someone else at fault?
Another driver, an employer, an occupier or a manufacturer. Shared fault does not end a claim, it reduces it.
Was it in the last three years?
Scotland allows three years from the accident, or from diagnosis for an industrial disease. Children have longer.
Did you need treatment?
A GP or hospital record from the time is the single most useful piece of evidence in any claim.
Covering Motherwell, Wishaw and Bellshill
Motherwell was the heart of Scotland’s steel industry, and although the works are long gone the consequences are not. We continue to act in deafness, vibration and asbestos claims arising from work done here decades ago.
Today the area’s employment is dominated by logistics around Eurocentral, along with retail, public sector and manufacturing work.
Our Airdrie head office is about twenty minutes away. Most of what we need comes from a first phone call, and we visit at home or in hospital at no cost.
Claims we take on in Motherwell
Accidents at work
Unsafe equipment, manual handling, falls from height and inadequate training.
Read more →Road traffic accidents
Drivers, passengers, motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians.
Read more →Serious injuries
Head, brain and spinal injuries needing lifetime care and support.
Read more →Slips, trips and falls
Public places, shops, workplaces and defective pavements.
Read more →Industrial disease
Deafness, HAVS, dermatitis, asbestos and occupational asthma.
Read more →No win – no fee
We fund the claim. Nothing to pay unless we win it for you.
Read more →Motherwell claims go to Hamilton Sheriff Court
This surprises people: although Motherwell, Wishaw and Bellshill are in North Lanarkshire for council purposes, their sheriff court district is Hamilton, not Airdrie.
Getting the forum right matters, and it is exactly the kind of local detail a firm from outside the area can get wrong. Most claims settle without proceedings in any event.
Hamilton Sheriff Court
Covers South Lanarkshire plus Motherwell, Wishaw and Bellshill. A busy court serving a large population.
All-Scotland Personal Injury Court
A specialist national court in Edinburgh, hearing injury actions from anywhere in Scotland before judges who deal only with injury work.
Court of Session
Edinburgh. For the highest-value and most complex claims, including catastrophic and fatal cases.
How people get hurt around Motherwell
The area combines one of Scotland’s largest logistics clusters with a heavy industrial past, and the M74 and A721 carrying substantial freight traffic.
Eurocentral and logistics
One of Scotland’s biggest distribution hubs sits on the doorstep. Manual handling, forklift, racking and loading-bay injuries dominate the workplace claims we see.
Steel and engineering legacy
Deafness, vibration white finger and asbestos-related disease from the steelworks and engineering shops, often diagnosed decades after exposure ended.
The M74, A721 and A723
Heavy freight and commuter traffic, with the Raith interchange among the busiest junctions in Scotland.
Manufacturing
Machinery guarding failures, crush injuries and noise exposure across the area’s remaining manufacturing base.
Retail and town centre
Slips on wet floors and falls on defective pavements around Motherwell and Wishaw town centres.
Construction
Housing and commercial development across North Lanarkshire, where falls from height remain the leading cause of serious injury.
University Hospital Wishaw serves the area
How we gather your medical evidence
University Hospital Wishaw is the district general serving Motherwell, Wishaw and Bellshill, and also handles paediatric and maternity care for much of Lanarkshire. Serious trauma is often taken to the Queen Elizabeth in Glasgow.
We request your records directly from NHS Lanarkshire and your GP practice on your authority.
For industrial disease claims we also trace your full employment history, which usually means obtaining HMRC records going back many years.
Who would handle your Motherwell claim
Motherwell claims are run from our Airdrie head office, about twenty minutes away.
Our record
A 99% success rate
Across personal injury claims, built on preparing cases properly and being honest at the outset about the ones that will not succeed.
Millions recovered
We have helped thousands of injured people win millions of pounds in compensation, from minor slips to catastrophic injury.
Referred by other solicitors
Firms in Scotland and England send us their clients’ personal injury claims, which is the endorsement we value most.
“From the very first phone call to the last they were friendly, courteous and very professional. What helped a great deal was the way they kept me informed.”
“They were so professional, courteous and diligent throughout the process. My compensation came through at the high end of my expectations.”
Scotland has its own rules and timeframes
Scots law differs from the rest of the UK in ways that matter to your claim, which is why a Scottish solicitor is worth having.
Three-year limitation
Most claims must be raised within three years of the accident, or from the date you knew an illness was work-related. Miss it and the claim is usually lost.
Pre-action protocol
Scotland operates a voluntary pre-action protocol for personal injury. It sets out timescales for insurers to investigate and respond before court is needed.
No win – no fee
We fund the cost of running your claim. If we do not win you pay nothing, and any success fee is capped and agreed with you in writing first.