Your Right 2 Light: How Their No Win, No Fee Works | Daylight Protect

Your Right 2 Light is a trading name of We Can Help You Ltd and has no connection with Daylight Protect. This is independent information for property owners comparing their options. Statements about Your Right 2 Light are drawn from publicly available sources and were checked on 11 June 2026.

If you are weighing up Your Right 2 Light for a rights of light claim, the most important thing to understand is not the company, it is the contract: they work under a damages-based agreement, and how that kind of agreement is structured decides how much of your compensation you actually keep.

• Your Right 2 Light is a genuine no win, no fee rights of light service. The question for you is not whether they are real, but whether the terms leave you with as much of your compensation as the alternatives.
• Their service fee is publicly stated as 35% plus VAT of your settlement, which is 42% inclusive. Under a damages-based agreement that percentage covers the legal costs, but it covers them by taking them out of your share.
• Two services can quote almost the same percentage and still leave you with very different amounts. Under a damages-based agreement the legal costs come out of your share; under the Daylight Protect Claim Plan much of that cost is recovered from the developer and from insurance instead, so less of your compensation is spent paying for the claim. Check your claim free of charge.

Who are Your Right 2 Light?

Your Right 2 Light is a trading name of We Can Help You Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales and based in Norwich. It offers a no win, no fee service to property owners affected by a neighbouring development, arranging the surveyor and the legal work and managing the claim on the client's behalf. It is, in other words, a direct equivalent of what Daylight Protect does: a claims service, not a firm of solicitors, that puts a professional team behind an affected owner. They are a legitimate operator in a small market. The rest of this page is about how their terms compare, because that is the decision actually in front of you.

What is a damages-based agreement, and how does Your Right 2 Light use one?

A damages-based agreement, or DBA, is a no win, no fee contract where the company's fee is a percentage of your compensation, payable only if you win. Your Right 2 Light publicly operates on a DBA basis, with a stated service fee of 35% plus VAT of your settlement sum. The "no win, no fee" promise is real: if the claim fails, you do not pay their fee. The part that repays close attention is what happens when you win. A DBA bundles the company's charge into a single percentage of your damages, and the headline percentage is not always the whole of what is deducted before the money reaches you. Two questions decide what you actually take home, and they are the questions this page exists to put in your hands. One more thing the phrase itself never tells you: "no win, no fee" describes the provider's own fee, not what happens to the other side's costs if a claim fails. That depends entirely on whether insurance has been arranged behind the promise, which is a separate question, and the single best test of any provider in this market: ask them to show you, in writing and before you sign, the insurance that stands behind their no win, no fee. With the Daylight Protect Claim Plan, ours is on the table before you commit: insurance included in the plan covers the other side's costs if the claim fails, and it is part of the written pack you see at the start, not an assurance you take on trust.

What does 35% plus VAT actually mean for my compensation?

In plain pounds: 35% plus VAT is 42% of your settlement. On a settlement of £50,000, that is £21,000, leaving you £29,000. The important thing to understand about a damages-based agreement is that this percentage is the ceiling: by law it is inclusive of the legal costs, so the company pays the solicitor and, generally, counsel out of that figure rather than charging them on top. That is the structure working as intended, and it means the headline is not hiding extra legal bills behind it.

The question a DBA cannot escape is a different one: where does the money to pay the professional team come from? Under a damages-based agreement, it comes out of your percentage. The legal costs are met by reducing your share. There is no mechanism in a DBA for the solicitor's base costs to be recovered from the developer on top of the cap; the cap is the whole of it, and the whole of it is drawn from your compensation. So the real comparison between two services is not just the percentage. It is how much of the professional cost is funded by shrinking your damages, versus how much is recovered from the other side and never touches your share at all.

How does the Daylight Protect Claim Plan compare?

Daylight Protect's fee is 35.6% of your compensation, including our fee, VAT and the insurance that protects you. As a headline percentage that sits close to a 35%-plus-VAT damages-based agreement. The decisive difference is not the number; it is where the professional costs are drawn from.

Under the Daylight Protect Claim Plan, the specialist solicitors who act for you do so on no win, no fee terms, and their costs and the disbursements are recovered from the other side, rather than being taken out of your damages. Crucially, where that recovery falls short of the full costs, you are not asked to make up the difference from your compensation. Under a damages-based agreement that is not how it works: the legal costs sit inside the client's capped percentage and are funded by it. So while the two headline percentages look similar, the structures fund the professional team from different places. With a damages-based agreement, the legal costs reduce your share. With the Daylight Protect Claim Plan, they are recovered from the developer, and any shortfall is not yours to cover.

If you win, you pay 35.6% of your compensation and keep the rest. The solicitor's costs and the disbursements are recovered from the other side, and you are not asked to make up any shortfall between what is recovered and the full costs out of your compensation. If you lose, you do not pay the solicitor's fees, and the protection built into the plan is there to meet the costs that would otherwise fall to you. Take a settlement of £50,000. Under the Daylight Protect Claim Plan, the all-in deduction is 35.6%, which is £17,800, and you keep £32,200. Under a damages-based agreement at 35% plus VAT, the deduction is 42%, which is £21,000, and you keep £29,000. Same claim, same settlement, £3,200 more in your pocket, and that is before the structural differences above are counted. Figures shown at one settlement level for illustration; your written terms govern, and you should ask any provider, including us, for the same calculation at your claim's realistic value.

Why does it matter that the fee is a share of damages?

There is a deeper issue with a damages-based agreement than the percentage, and it goes to the heart of what gives a rights of light claim its power. The most valuable remedy in these disputes is not money. It is the injunction: the court order that can halt a development or require part of a completed building to be cut back. That remedy is what brings developers to the table, because the risk of being stopped is far more expensive to them than a release fee. The threat of an injunction is the leverage; compensation is usually the result of that leverage, not the goal in itself.

A damages-based agreement is, by definition, a contract to be paid a percentage of money the client recovers. An injunction produces no money, so a fee structured purely as a share of damages has nothing to attach to if the remedy is a court order rather than a cheque. The law that defines these agreements ties the provider's payment to the client obtaining a "specified financial benefit" from the claim; where a claim produces a non-financial outcome, there can be nothing for the provider to be paid from. The structure is built around a cash result.

This has a consequence most homeowners never see, and it works against them from the very first letter. When deciding whether to grant an injunction or to award damages in its place, a court weighs whether money would be an adequate substitute for the claimant. A claimant who has signed an agreement that only pays out on a cash settlement has, in effect, documented from the outset that a financial outcome was the objective. That is the opposite of the position that wins injunctions, and a developer's advisers can be expected to make the point. A funding arrangement that can only reward damages does not just fail to value the injunction; it can quietly weaken the claimant's ability to credibly threaten one, which is the very thing that makes a developer pay properly. The Daylight Protect Claim Plan is structured so that pursuing the right remedy, including a court order rather than a cash settlement, is not in tension with how the claim is run. The leverage stays real, which is what a fair outcome depends on.

There is a practical reason the Daylight Protect Claim Plan keeps that leverage real, and it comes back to the insurance. A threat of an injunction only moves a developer if the claim behind it can actually reach a courtroom, and a claim can only credibly reach a courtroom if the claimant is protected against the cost of getting there. The insurance built into the plan is what removes the developer's best defence, which is the hope that a neighbour cannot afford the risk of litigation and will take a discounted settlement rather than face it. With specialist solicitors acting on no win, no fee terms, the expert bills, court fees and the other side's costs covered by the plan's insurance, and the ability to pursue an injunction rather than only a cash payout, the claim that lands on the developer's desk is one their advisers must price as a genuine risk. That is the whole purpose of the structure: not to promise a fight, but to make a fair settlement the developer's most sensible option, because the alternative is credible.

What questions should I ask before signing with any rights of light service?

The same ten questions apply to Your Right 2 Light, to Daylight Protect, and to anyone else, and they are set out in full here: how to choose a rights of light claims company. The four that matter most when comparing a DBA against other structures:

1. What is my number after everything? Ask for a written worked example at a realistic settlement figure, showing the fee, VAT, any insurance premium, and what actually reaches you.
2. Where do the legal and surveyor costs come from? Under a damages-based agreement they are funded out of your percentage. Under other structures the solicitor's costs are recovered from the developer so far as possible and the court fees and disbursements are covered by insurance, with the aim of spending less of your compensation on the claim. Ask which applies.
3. Does the way the team is paid depend on a cash settlement? A fee that is only ever a share of money recovered has no reward attached to an injunction. Ask whether the structure can pursue a court order, not just a payout.
4. Can I see all of it before I commit? Every figure should be on paper before you sign, not explained afterwards.

How do I compare my options?

You do not have to take the first offer you receive, and you do not have to accept the first set of terms you are shown. A rights of light claim is often the most valuable single negotiation a homeowner will ever conduct, and the difference between two no win, no fee structures can be a five-figure difference in what you keep. Compare the terms, ask the four questions above of everyone, and choose with the numbers in front of you.

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Daylight Protect is a litigation facilitator, not a firm of solicitors. We arrange and manage rights of light claims on a no win, no fee basis; legal work is carried out by independent specialist solicitors who act for you. Our fee is payable only if your claim succeeds.

Frequently asked questions

Is Your Right 2 Light legitimate?

Yes. Your Right 2 Light is a genuine no win, no fee rights of light service operating in England and Wales. The question worth your attention is not legitimacy but terms: how their fee is structured, and how much of your compensation it leaves you, compared with the alternatives.

Is 35% plus VAT a normal fee for a rights of light claim?

It is one structure among several, and at 42% inclusive it is a significant share. Under a damages-based agreement that percentage is a ceiling that includes the legal costs, so the figure is not hiding extra bills, but those legal costs are funded by reducing your share. The more useful question when comparing services is where the professional costs come from: a structure that recovers the solicitor's costs from the developer so far as possible, and covers court fees and disbursements through insurance, is designed to leave more of your compensation with you than one that pays for everything out of your percentage. Always ask each provider to show you, in writing, what reaches your bank account.

Can I switch if I have already signed with another provider?

That depends on the terms of the agreement you signed, including any cooling-off period and notice provisions, so check your own contract and take advice. As a general point, you are entitled to understand exactly what you have agreed to and what leaving it would involve. If you are unsure where you stand, a free assessment of your claim is a sensible first step.

This article is general information about rights of light in England and Wales, not legal advice on your specific circumstances.