Niten Chauhan looks at the emotional fallout of civil cases
“What will it cost me?” These are the all too familiar words litigation solicitors hear during a consultation meeting, or over the telephone, during an initial call with a prospective client.
Depending on the complexities of a matter, this is when the discussion typically turns to hourly rates, whether the work can be undertaken for a fixed fee or on a time basis – and invariably, the financial consequences if the matter were to proceed to trial – particularly were they to lose and have to pay the other side’s costs.
However, litigation often has a greater and much wider impact than that just a monetary one – and this is often something of which solicitors fail to forewarn their clients to ...
As human beings, litigants cannot help but let their thoughts and emotions control them as these wander … what if things might have played out differently?
