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 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth
Cumbernauld is one of Scotland’s new towns, built around a fast road network with substantial distribution and manufacturing employment on its industrial estates.
It is about twenty minutes from our Airdrie head office, closer than most firms advertising for Cumbernauld work, and falls within the same sheriff court district.
Most of what we need comes from a first phone call. Where a meeting helps we come to you at home or in hospital, at no cost.
Claims we take on in Cumbernauld
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 →Cumbernauld claims go to Airdrie Sheriff Court
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth fall within the Airdrie Sheriff Court district, which covers North Lanarkshire. That court is on Graham Street in Airdrie, the same street as our head office.
Most claims settle without proceedings. Where court action is needed we will advise whether Airdrie or the specialist All-Scotland Personal Injury Court is the better forum.
Airdrie Sheriff Court
The local forum for North Lanarkshire claims, on Graham Street, the same street as our head office.
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 in Cumbernauld
Cumbernauld was designed around a fast road network with pedestrian routes largely separated from traffic, and its industrial estates carry a significant distribution and manufacturing workforce.
The A80 and M80
A major route between Glasgow and Stirling carrying heavy commuter and freight traffic past the town, with fast slip roads and merges.
Distribution and warehousing
Manual handling, forklift, racking and loading-bay injuries across Cumbernauld’s industrial estates.
Manufacturing
Machinery guarding failures, crush injuries and noise exposure at the town’s long-established manufacturing sites.
Underpasses and walkways
A new-town network of pedestrian underpasses, ramps and footbridges where lighting, surface defects and ice cause falls.
Town centre and retail
Slips on wet floors and falls on stairs, ramps and in car parks around the town centre and retail parks.
Construction and housing
Continuing residential development around the town, with falls from height and site traffic the main risks.
Monklands and Forth Valley both serve Cumbernauld
How we gather your medical evidence
Cumbernauld sits close to the boundary between health board areas, so records may be held at University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie or at Forth Valley Royal in Larbert depending on where you were taken. Serious trauma often goes to the Queen Elizabeth in Glasgow.
That split catches people out. We check both, and request your records directly from the relevant board and your GP practice on your authority.
For significant injuries we instruct an independent consultant to examine you privately at our cost.
Who would handle your Cumbernauld claim
Cumbernauld claims are run from our Airdrie head office, 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.