Focus On........Witness Statements

All of our Franchise Owners are experienced at taking statements of all types, whether for Court purposes or other. A number of our team have a Senior Police Officer background and are well versed in the skills needed to do the job right first time. Similarly, when a new Franchise Owner joins us, they complete a two week residential training programme and the completion of Witness Statements forms a part of that training and provides those that may not have undertaken such work before, the necessary abilities and confidence.

Who do you know?

We were recently instructed by one of our Solicitor clients to obtain a full witness statement. He was pursuing a personal injury claim for his client arising out of a road traffic accident. The independent witness to the accident, where a child was knocked down by a car in which all the occupants appeared to be arguing with each other and not paying attention to the road, needed to be contacted and an appointment made to give her statement. The problem was that she was Somalian and did not speak English very well. Could we help?

Using our extensive network of industry professionals, we were able to source an intepreter quickly and arranged for the witness to be interviewed. At interview our Franchise Owner asked the questions needed to complete the statement which were translated by the interpreter, with the responses translated back to English. Before long the statement was complete and read back in it's entirety to the witness in Somali who confirmed it to be a true reflection of the accident as she saw it.

Our report and statement were returned to the Solicitor who could now pursue the matter for his client. We await the outcome, but London House has again done its job.

Witness Statements

We are experienced at taking statements of all types, whether for Court purposes or other. Many of our staff are ex-senior Police officers, experienced at all types of interview.