I was attacked can i claim

Third-Party cookies are set by our partners and help us to improve your experience of the website. Click here for a full list of third-party plugins used on this site. New enquiries Residential conveyancing enquiries News and Events. Can I claim compensation after being attacked by a dog? Take photographs of your injuries. Do this as soon as you are able to, and ensure that you take regular photographs throughout the duration of your claim, to monitor the progression of scarring, for example.

Comments Post a comment! Your choice regarding cookies on this site Clicking the Accept All button means you are accepting analytics and third-party cookies check the full list. Accept All Settings. Our use of cookies. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme is a government funded scheme designed to compensate victims of violent crime in Great Britain. The rules of the Scheme and the value of the payments awarded are set by Parliament and are calculated by reference to a tariff of injuries.

You do not need a paid representative such as a solicitor or claims management company to apply for compensation. Free independent advice may be available from local support or other charitable organisations. If you belong to a trade union, they may be able to help. If you choose paid representation we cannot meet the cost of this, and you will have to pay these costs yourself.

You may wish to check how much of your payment will go to your representative before you agree to paid representation. If you have appointed a representative then decide that you no longer wish to be represented by them or you wish to change your representative, you must inform us.

We will continue to process your claim, but we must establish whether you have settled any outstanding fees owed to your former representative.

If not, the amount of fees under dispute will be held back if any award of compensation is made. This amount will be released when you and your former representative confirm, in writing, that the matter has been resolved. You can ask a friend or a relative to represent you and help you make a claim. However, we will need confirmation from you that you are happy for them to deal with the case. You can only ask us to consider special expenses if your injuries mean you have been unable to work or have been incapacitated to a similar extent for more than 28 weeks;.

Not all claims for compensation will be successful; you must be eligible under the rules of the Scheme. If your injuries are not serious enough to fall within the tariff of injuries, the Government has introduced a Hardship Fund. The Hardship Fund provides temporary relief from financial hardship to very low paid workers who are temporarily unable to work because they have been a victim of a violent crime.

The fund only applies to injuries sustained in England and Wales. For more information, you should contact the Victim Support line on 08 08 16 89 Find out about support for victims of crime in Scotland and in Northern Ireland. The Scheme is intended to be one of last resort. Where the opportunity exists for you to pursue compensation elsewhere you should do so.

We will expect you to take all reasonable steps to obtain any social security benefits, insurance payments, damages or compensation to which you may be entitled as a result of your injuries. We may ask for evidence that you have:. We may not make a decision on your case until such times as we are satisfied that you are eligible and you could not get compensation from any other sources. You must keep CICA informed about any other claims you are pursuing. Regardless of whether or not you are seeking compensation or damages from other sources you should make your application to CICA as soon as possible.

You may still be eligible for an award under the Scheme even if your assailant is not known, or is not convicted. You must apply as soon as it is reasonably practicable for you to do so. If you were an adult at the time of the incident, this should normally not be later than two years after it occurred.

We can only extend this time limit where:. We do not need to wait for the outcome of a criminal trial if there is already enough information to make a decision on your case, so you should never make that a reason for delaying your application.

If you wish us to consider your application more than two years from the date of the incident you will need to provide us with evidence that shows why this application could not have been made earlier.

You must also be able to provide supporting evidence for your claim that means that the claims officer can make a decision without further extensive enquiries. Special provision is made in the Scheme if you were under 18 at the time of the incident.

Although we will consider later applications from you in those circumstances, it is best if you apply as soon as possible. If you are not able to make your own application, your parent or guardian can apply on your behalf.

If an application is made close to the time of the incident it will be easier for you to provide evidence that you were injured as the result of a crime of violence.

If the incident or period of abuse was reported to the police before you turned 18, and no-one made a claim on your behalf, you can make a claim to us up until the day of your 20th birthday.

If the incident or period of abuse took place before you turned 18, but was not reported to the police at the time, you can apply to us within two years from you reporting the incident or abuse to the police.

However, in either case you must also be able to provide supporting evidence for your claim that means that the claims officer can make a decision without further extensive enquiries. If you wish us to extend these periods for applying you will also need to provide us with evidence that shows why the application could not have been made earlier.

This rule has now been removed from the Scheme. Furthermore, if your application for compensation was previously refused under this rule, you can now reapply. The time limit for applications to be received was two years from 14 June We have discretion to consider applications beyond this deadline if you were a child at the time of the incident giving rise to the injury or there are exceptional circumstances which meant you could not have applied earlier, and the evidence supplied with your application means that it can be determined without the need for further extensive enquiries.

You will also need to meet all the remaining requirements and eligibility criteria within the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme to receive an award of compensation. You can apply for compensation online. The application process should take no longer than 20 minutes. If you have no access to online services or need help to complete your application, our Customer Support Team can help. If you wish to apply in the Welsh language, please download, complete and return a Welsh-language application.

If you are unsure about whether or not you are eligible for a payment, or have a question about the application process you can call our Customer Support Team. If you are the parent, or person with parental responsibility for a child, you can complete an application on their behalf. You will be asked to provide your details and proof of your relationship to the child. If you have the authority to act on behalf of a person who lacks the capacity to make their own application, you can apply on their behalf.

We will seek evidence that you are entitled to act on their behalf. If the person does not already have someone who is legally appointed to act on their behalf, then you could consider applying to the Court of Protection in England and Wales for the appointment of a deputy or for a single order or, in Scotland, to the Sheriff Court for the appointment of a financial welfare guardian or for an intervention order. Other countries might have a compensation scheme.

You have to apply directly to the country where the crime happened. Contact the British embassy, high commission or consulate for help. If you were injured outside the EU, you may be able to apply under a similar scheme operated by the country concerned.

Please contact the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for more information. Details can be found on www. If you are a member of the Armed Forces or an accompanying dependent who was a victim of violent crime whilst serving outside Great Britain, you may be able to apply to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Overseas Scheme operated by the Ministry of Defence.

If you were injured in Northern Ireland, you should contact Compensation Services at:. If you were ordinarily resident in the UK and you were injured outside the UK in a terrorist attack, you may be able to claim under the Victims of Overseas Terrorism Compensation Scheme. Please see our website for more information at www.

We can compensate victims of violent crime, or people whose loved ones have died as a result of a violent crime. A direct victim is someone who was directly injured as a result of a crime of violence in Great Britain or other relevant place.

However, Annex B of the Scheme lists what is and what is not a crime of violence for the purposes of the Scheme. The Scheme requires that all incidents, for which a claim is made, be reported to the police. If the crime for which you are seeking compensation has not been reported to the police we cannot make a payment. The incident should be reported to the police as soon as is reasonably practicable. Normally this will mean immediately following the incident. Where you have delayed reporting the incident to the police we will ask you to explain why you delayed.

We will then assess if it could have been reasonably practicable for you to have reported the incident sooner. We will take all the circumstances of the case into account, in particular we will consider if:. You should always report the incident to the police even if you have reported it somewhere else such as your place of work. If the incident took place while you were on duty, we will not penalise you for any minor delay in reporting to the police if you have complied with your employers investigatory procedures.

If you have been injured because of a period of physical or sexual abuse, you can make a claim for compensation. The incident must have been reported to the police.

You may be eligible for a payment if you were injured while trying to apprehend and offender or suspected offender, prevent or remedy the consequences of a crime or were helping the police to do so. However, we will only make a payment if we are satisfied that you were taking an exceptional risk and that risk was justified in all the circumstances.

A risk will not be considered exceptional if it was something that you might reasonably have been expected to do in the normal course of your work.

In considering whether a risk is exceptional we will consider if the risk taken was unusual and was not something which you had been trained to deal with. When considering if the risk was justified we will consider all the circumstances, including the seriousness of the situation, and whether there was an immediate threat to those involved.

You may be eligible to make a claim for a mental injury if you witnessed, and were present at, an incident in which a loved one was injured as the result of a crime of violence.

You may also be eligible if you were involved in the immediate aftermath of an incident in which a loved one was injured. If you are claiming a payment because you witnessed, or were involved in the immediate aftermath of the injury of a loved one, you must have suffered a mental injury as a result.

We will need medical evidence from a psychiatrist or a clinical psychologist confirming that this is the case. If you are a close relative of a person who dies as a result of their injuries, you may be able to apply for a payment. A qualifying relative is someone who, when the victim died, was in one of the groups listed in paragraph 59 of the Scheme.

It includes adult children and a child of the deceased born after the incident. You will not be eligible for a bereavement payment. Former spouses and civil partners of the deceased, as well as anyone estranged from the deceased at the time of their death are not eligible for a bereavement award. If you are a qualifying relative and were not divorced or estranged from the deceased at the time of death, you may be eligible for a bereavement payment.

A person who was responsible for the death of a victim cannot get a payment as a result of the death. We may also reduce or withhold a payment if the conduct of either you or the deceased, before, during or after the incident makes it inappropriate to make an award or a full award.

We have plenty of experience winning dog attack cases and understand the distressing, often long-term effects the physical and emotional scars can have. Please ring us on or complete the form on this page. Remember, you have three years from the date of the attack to seek compensation from the owner of the dog. Enquire Now Start a Claim. Workplace Assault Claims Workers should expect, and deserve, to be kept safe from danger and hazards and to return home each day unharmed. Start a claim.

Request a call back. Our experience in workplace assault compensation claims. Being a prison officer can be a dangerous job but nobody should go to work and get stabbed. I cannot thank Thompsons enough for helping me to hold my employer to account. Iain, our workplace assault client. Frequently asked questions about making a workplace assault compensation claim.

What is a workplace assault? What is a workplace assault compensation claim? Can I make a workplace assault compensation claim against my employer and the person who assaulted me? I was assaulted in the workplace — but how do I know if my employer is liable? These include: Working alone or understaffed: Members of staff who are left to work alone or in a short-staffed environment can be particularly vulnerable to attacks or assaults.

Security guards, prison officers and carers for people with challenging behaviour can be at particular risk; Ignoring previous violent behaviour from another member of staff, patient or client who has committed violent acts in the past or about which they could have easily found out but fails to take any or adequate action and that person assaults a member of staff, then the employer may be liable.