Hayward Baker Solicitors

This could be an employer, an insurance company, a local authority or even another law firm. We know the truth is that there are people like you, who are genuinely injured and deserve some recompense, despite the law making it more difficult for you as each new layer of legislation is passed. Keith Hayward, Managing Director, explains "When we form... ed Hayward Baker, we wanted to develop a specialist Firm that was able to respond quickly to the rapidly changing personal injury environment. Although it is often perceived, largely due to the media reporting of the so-called "compensation culture", that it is now much easier to bring a personal injury claim, this is not the case. Many of the laws that govern our work have been around for decades, notably the law of negligence that was established in 1931. Only really the workplace has seen a significant change in legislation in recent years aimed at safeguarding the workforce. What has changed is people's awareness of their right to bring a claim if they are the victim of an accident caused by the fault of another. However, establishing that fault remains the challenge and what our team of lawyers are dedicated to". Here at Hayward Baker, we are leading technologically in the way that PI claims are streamlined. We have successfully built a super-system making travel delay claims really easy for the public, and we are using the same technology to start streamlining the more complex claims such as personal injury claims. Our desire to help you with smaller injury claims is countered by government legislation. The amount of costs we can recover for the amount of work we do for you, has gone down and the fees are fixed. This means we can't invest as much time in a smaller case as we would have done in the past - but fear not...Read More