I get quite a few e-mails from people whose claims have been handled by other attorneys and who tell me that their attorney has not managed to extract the money from the Road Accident Fund in three months after the case was settled and that they are very worried about that. I actually reassure them that this is quite a common problem at the moment, and whether you use the Sheriff of the Court to try and squeeze the money out of the Road Accident Fund, or you don’t, you still, either way, have tremendous problems in getting paid by the Road Accident Fund. 

The public version that the Road Accident Fund had been telling us lawyers, up until now, is that there are all sorts of computer issues or software changes and things like that, but one wonders whether or not it is actually a shortage of funds, and we are not going to see much slower payments in future. In other words, people that put in RAF claims against the Road Accident Fund are going to have to accept and understand that payment will not take place as quickly as it has in the past or that they may have heard from their friends.