If you have been involved in an injury based on crime you may have a claim for compensation the details of the crime and injuries that resulted are important and if you are trying to claim compensation you may want to consult an experienced adviser on criminal injury law.

What is criminal injury?

Criminal injury can be when you have sustained an injury due to the criminal act of another person or persons.

You may have been the direct victim of for example; an assault or your injury may have been sustained when you were attempting to help the police after a crime had been committed. A close relative of a person who died because of injuries can also make a claim.

Even if an offender is not identified, caught or convicted, a successful claim can still be made. You have two years in which to make a claim to the criminal injuries board if you have been in the last two years physically or psychologically injured because of a violent crime. Lost due to death a parent, child, husband, wife or partner as a result of a violent crime?

The two year rule can in some exceptional cases be over ruled.

To get the best chance of getting the best compensation award you need to contact a solicitor dealing with this type of claim.

Mental anguish generally has to be substantiated and documented for it to be classed as being something that requires compensation; it helps if there is recognised trauma that occurs from your type of victimisation such as being raped. Rape victims are accepted to have both physical and mental injuries due to the extensive research done in that area and the already existing supporting evidence .

No one wants to be injured and if you are due to someone else you should be able to be compensated with out feeling like you are being violated again.

Some injuries have set price awards and it is worth asking your solicitor what your compensation payment is liable to be and what you are being compensated for. you may have several options on who and what you claim compensation for from just one incident. make sure you have any photographs preferably showing any injuries before and after treatment

This can make it easier to see how you suffered at a later date when all signs of injury may have healed