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 the whole of Greater Glasgow
Glasgow is Scotland’s largest city and generates more personal injury claims than anywhere else in the country. We act for clients across the whole of Greater Glasgow, from the city centre out to the East End, the Southside, the West End and beyond.
You do not need a solicitor with a shopfront on your street. What matters is who runs your file, how quickly they move, and whether they know the courts and hospitals involved. Our Airdrie head office is around 25 minutes from the city centre, and we are in Glasgow regularly.
If travelling is difficult after an injury, we will come to you at home or in hospital anywhere in the city, at no charge, or meet by video call.
Claims we take on in Glasgow
Accident at work claims in Glasgow
Construction, hospitality, warehousing and transport injuries across the city.
Read more →Road traffic accident claims in Glasgow
The M8, Kingston Bridge, city-centre junctions, cyclists and pedestrians.
Read more →Serious injury claims
Head, brain and spinal injuries requiring lifetime care and rehabilitation.
Read more →Glasgow Sheriff Court, one of the busiest in Europe
Glasgow Sheriff Court at 1 Carlton Place handles an enormous volume of civil business, including personal injury actions arising in the city. If your claim needs proceedings, that is one option, but it is not the only one, and often not the best one.
Since 2015 most Scottish personal injury actions above the small-claims level can be raised in the All-Scotland Personal Injury Court in Edinburgh, a specialist court whose judges deal only with injury work. For many Glasgow claims that is the better forum, and we will advise which suits your case.
All-Scotland Personal Injury Court
A national specialist court in Edinburgh. Judges who hear nothing but personal injury, and generally a more predictable route for Glasgow claims.
Glasgow Sheriff Court
The local forum at Carlton Place, handling a very high volume of civil business including injury actions.
Court of Session
Edinburgh. Reserved for the highest-value and most complex cases, including catastrophic and fatal claims.
How people get hurt in Glasgow
A city this size has every kind of accident, but some patterns recur. The M8 runs straight through the middle of it, the hospitality and construction sectors are large employers, and the city has a substantial cycling and pedestrian population sharing space with heavy traffic.
The M8 and Kingston Bridge
One of the busiest stretches of urban motorway in Europe, with short slip roads, heavy weaving and frequent congestion-related collisions.
Cyclists and pedestrians
Collisions at city-centre junctions, on bus and taxi routes, and along the Clydeside corridor, often involving serious injury.
Construction and regeneration
Ongoing development across the city brings falls from height, scaffolding failures and struck-by incidents.
Hospitality and licensed premises
Slips on wet floors, falls on stairs and cellar and kitchen injuries across the city’s bars, restaurants and hotels.
Public transport and taxis
Injuries to passengers on buses, trains and in taxis, including sudden braking and boarding incidents.
Public places and pavements
Trips on defective pavements and falls in shops and shopping centres, claimed against the council or the occupier.
Where Glasgow injuries are treated
How we gather your medical evidence
Serious trauma in Glasgow is usually taken to the major trauma centre at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, while Glasgow Royal Infirmary covers much of the city centre and east. Injured children are generally treated at the Royal Hospital for Children.
We request your records directly from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and from your GP practice, with your authority, so you do not have to chase anything.
Where the injury is significant we instruct an independent consultant to examine you privately at our cost, so the long-term prognosis is evidenced rather than assumed.
Who would handle your Glasgow claim
Glasgow claims are run from our Airdrie head office by a named solicitor with in-house paralegal support.
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.