Legal Aid - Frequently Asked Questions

Topics:

• Legal aid

• Useful information for legal aid suppliers

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) surrounding the different areas of legal aid.

• Additional documents

• Adoption, wardship & other public law proceedings

• Amendments to certificates

• Ancillary relief

• Appeals

• Appeals to the Civil Legal Services Appeals Panel (CLSAP)

• Applications for legal aid to appeal & transfers to a higher court

• Authorities

• Claims against public authorities

• Clinical negligence claims

• Divorce proceedings

• Domestic violence proceedings

• Emergency applications

• Employers liability claims

• Financial eligibility - advice & assistance

• Financial eligibility - representation lower

• General accident claims (slips and trips)

• High court bail applications

• Immigration tribunals

• Inheritance proceedings

• Injunction & harassment claims

• International cases

• Judicial review

• Land disputes

• Mental health review tribunal

• Non-emergency applications

• Private law children order proceedings

• Proceedings before the court of summary jurisdiction and warrants of further detention

• Public law children order proceedings

• Road traffic claims

 

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