🔖 Civil Litigation is a lottery It's expensive risky stressful and time consuming - and there's no guarantee of success at the end of it all Litigation is bad enough in itself but equally uncertain is whether you will get good advice from a Solicitor Will they tell you the true costs? Will they tell you the true risks? Will the action really benefit you or the Solicitor? Will they tell you all you need to know before committing you to a course of action that you may later regret? How do you really know what you are letting yourself in for? Nelson has written the book to help lay people when using a Solicitor Whether you are taking legal action or defending it Nelson has already been on the journey A lay person Nelson's experience of Solicitors and litigation is considerable by normal standards and gained the hard way After 6 years of dealing with litigation Nelson felt compelled to write this book as a result of the dreadful experience of Nelson's family with Solicitors The litigation should have been avoidable had the Solicitor adhered to some very basic principles in the advice-giving process; principles of which the Solicitor was ignorant Nelson discovered that many other people's experiences of Solicitors were the same especially over inadequate advice received on costs and risks Nelson felt something needed to be done to address the problem not only to help consumers but also to help Solicitors better understand a Client's needs an...