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Determine financial eligibility for legal aid: check household income, calculate living costs, enforcement action, apply for hardship or eligibility review.
Legal aid providers: test scope, merits and means; access legislation and regulations; use the civil legal aid calculator and manual.
How to work out financial eligibility for legal aid: income and capital means testing, passporting and the civil legal aid calculator.
New tool now available for providers to check a client’s financial eligibility for civil legal aid.
Find out if you can get legal aid, which can help pay for legal advice, family mediation or representation in court or at a tribunal if you can’t afford it
The rules for legal aid providers, including the interests of justice and means tests, relevant legislation, and making an application.
Includes rates calculator and guidance for claims in civil matters.
Legal aid application forms and guidance for civil and crime work: apply online or through CCMS, deal with high cost or exceptional cases.
The Review of Civil Legal Aid will explore options for improving the long-term sustainability of the civil legal aid system.
Check dates for processing (crime and civil) and planned BACS payments, get financial statements, switch to variable monthly payments.
These data files are the source for the key statistics on activity in the legal aid system for England and Wales in .csv (Comma delimited) format.
Financial eligibility forms and guidance when you need to means test a civil legal aid client.
General information including on costs assessment and remuneration for civil and crime matters.
Means assessment form for people on Income Support or employment benefits who want to apply for legal aid.
Application forms and guidance, eligibility, scope and means testing.
Legal aid helps pay for legal advice, mediation or representation in court - see if you can claim.
Legal aid forms including listing costs.
Use claim forms or claim online, eg using CCMS, to get paid for all aspects of legal aid work; find guidance and help with submissions.
The Criminal Cases Unit is responsible for assessing a range of claims paid out of the Legal Aid Fund.
Details of the Ministry of Justice’s review of criminal legal aid, announced in December 2018.
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