What happens if you miss the deadline to claim emissions compensation?

If you miss the deadline to claim emissions compensation, unfortunately, we will not be able to help you. Ultimately, you missed out on your chance to receive damages.

For some claimants, some of the deadlines have already passed and claims settled last year and we are no longer able to help you if you were supposed to have joined the previous action. For those who are still in time to claim, make sure you complete your claim set-up as a matter of urgency to avoid missing out.

All you need to do is complete a few forms on our website here now to get started, but please understand that you are already at risk given how late in the day it is. That being said, given that you could be eligible to claim thousands of pounds in damages, do not be put off.

What happens if you miss the deadline to claim?

If you miss the deadline to submit and prepare your emissions compensation claim prior to any court-imposed cut-off dates or general ones, you simply could miss out on the chance of winning compensation. This could mean losing out on the opportunity to recover thousands of pounds in damages as a victim of one of the many emissions scandals.

There is more to it than simply registering your case with a firm. We need to make sure that your case is fully prepared, and make sure that we have all the documents and evidence required, as well as all the answers to the questions that we may need answering. As such, even registering at such a late stage puts you at risk unless you can quickly put together the documents and answers that we need.

Ultimately, if you miss the deadline to pursue a case, there will likely be nothing that we will be able to do for you.

Is there really nothing we can do? Who has already missed the deadlines?

Yes. To repeat the above, if you miss the deadline to pursue your emissions compensation claim then, unfortunately, we will likely be unable to help you.

We still get inquiries from those who should have joined the Group Litigation Order (GLO) action for the original Volkswagen “Dieselgate” scandal that first emerged in the news in 2015. For those claimants, you were supposed to join that action before the cut-off date, and we are no longer able to help you. Thousands of people who joined that previous GLO settled their claims last year, each receiving thousands of pounds in many cases.

It is a real shame that we continue to receive calls from those who were eligible for the previous action who we can no longer help. But again, to repeat the above, there is usually nothing that we can do for you.

The deadline has passed, and that action has concluded.

Find out if you can still claim now

You can find out if you are still in time to pursue an emissions compensation claim by completing our eligibility checker on our website here now.

Given that we are prepared to work on a No Win, No Fee basis for eligible clients, there should be nothing stopping you at all from pursuing a claim. After all, you could be awarded thousands of pounds but, if the case loses, we can write off our legal fees, subject to the agreed terms and conditions in place. As such, the only question you should ask yourself is this: what do you have to lose in starting a claim now?