No win no fee solicitor's employee finds his friends suck


After a hard day's work on ano win, no fee solicitor website you want to relax and think about something else - well, after any kind of work, really, but they always say write about what you know.

And what I know I was doing last night was spending time with some friends in a pub trying to talk about anything other than work, but when I got called a suck-it-and-see solicitor everyone laughed too much for it to be forgotten for the whole of the night. Whenever it got quiet, someone would mutter "suck" and the giggles would go off again. Once in the quiet as I was lining up on the black ball to win on the pool table - I missed, of course, once the laughter started.

I hope this isn't going to be a new nickname. It's not even as if it's accurate; I don't actually do the personal injury law stuff myself, I'm just a supportive role to the various lawyers who look after the industrial disease sufferers and work accident victims. But we know nicknames don't depend on accuracy. So, in a spirit of distraction, I'm going to try going so far through the idea that people don't want to use it any more.

"Suck it and see", as a phrase, is thought to refer to boiled sweets such as gobstoppers or rock; it being difficult to tell what flavour a red sweet is, the solution may be to suck it and see. Taste may be more precise as the sense in question, but the sound of the phrase is better as is.

Perhaps predictably, The Sweet used the phrase as the name (and most of the lyrics) of one of their less well-known songs. And they weren't alone; bands as varied as Grim Reaper and Pussyfoot have used it too.

It's also a popular title for subeditors to tack on to any article about sweets in newspapers.

And, importantly, it presumes a certain degree of pleasantness. If that red candy could be either strawberry flavour or prawn-and-castor-oil flavour, you'd be less keen to use taste as a way of making the distinction.

Which leads into the difference between my no win, no fee solicitor bosses and a suck it and see approach; a valid reason for making a compensation claim is always loss of income or enforced costs from some kind of personal injury.

The people who come to us are often experiencing pain of some kind, and know that the process of making the claim is not a breeze. We make it as simple and painless as possible, but without the need for the whiplash/whiplash-injury-compensation-amounts.htm">compensation amount at the end, and the belief that it is deserved, it would be foolish to begin a claim.

I wish I'd been eloquent to say that last night once they started their no win, no fee solicitor teasing. But, of course, I wasn't. And now I fear I shall be known as Suck, or - since they put the song on the radio while we were in there - Suckit Man. To the tune of Rocket Man. I think it's going to be a long, long time that this nickname runs, sadly.

Can I claim?