Free legal advice: Brydens Lawyers answer your legal questions live

WELCOME to The Daily Telegraph’s free and live legal Q&A with the experts from Brydens Lawyers. Get your free legal advice from 1-2pm today.

Ask your legal questions here.

WELCOME to The Daily Telegraph’s free and live legal Q & A with the experts from Brydens Lawyers.

Brydens’ gurus will be answering questions between 1 and 2pm on Thursday but you can go to the front of the queue by posting your query before then through the comments field below.

Here’s a curly query posed recently — and Brydens’ insightful response.

Question: I was bashed by an intoxicated individual at a local bowling club. Do I have any legal ability for compensation, including medical costs?

Answer: A victim of a crime who suffers injury can bring a claim through the Victims Compensation Tribunal. In addition there would be a claim available as against the perpetrator. Whether the perpetrator would be in a position to meet any judgment debt may be problematic given there is no insurance of any kind that would respond to such a claim. That is, the perpetrator would need to meet a judgment debt personally.