Criminal Injury Claims

Criminal Injury Claims

At Watson Woodhouse our criminal injury compensation team is available to help, advise and make a claim on your behalf. If you’ve been injured, physically or psychologically as a direct result of a crime within the last two years, you could be entitled to make a claim via the Government Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA). Contact us to discuss your circumstances and receive a free initial consultation.

Criminal Injury Compensation Claims

The perpetrator of a crime does not have to be convicted or even identified for a criminal injury compensation claim to be made. The main consideration is to ensure you’ve done everything possible in assisting the police to bring the criminal to justice. The crime must have occurred within the last two years. In certain circumstances this time limit can be extended. You cannot have caused or contributed to the crime in order to claim criminal injury compensation.

You may be able to make a claim if:

• You were the victim of a crime
• A family member died as a result of the crime
• You witnessed a crime happen to a loved one
• You had to pay funeral costs for the deceased

Claiming Criminal Injury Compensation

With criminal injury compensation you can claim for the following:

• Injuries
• Loss of earnings
• Funeral costs
• Child payments
• Bereavement

Solicitors at Watson Woodhouse understand the devastation caused by criminal injuries and how this impacts daily life. Both physical and psychological harm can affect your mental health and ability to work. Whilst compensation won’t fix this, it significantly helps by giving you one less aspect to worry about. Your dedicated criminal injury claims solicitor will provide the best advice whilst assisting you in the CICA application.

Should you have already received a payment and are unsatisfied, our team can help in making an appeal to the tribunal to recover a more acceptable amount.