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We are seeking more capacity to ensure clients in Trafford can continue to access prompt family legal aid services.
Providers and experts requesting approval for overnight accommodation should know guideline rates in certain cities are increasing with immediate effect.
2024 Standard Civil Contract holders will be sent a copy of their annual schedules.
Following a recent consultation response, certain LGFS fees are increasing from 3 March 2026
The LAA is launching an updated Civil Application Fixer service and introducing a new Civil Contingency Fixer service effective from Monday 26 January.
The Crime Application Guide has been updated and an Additional Office/Service Amendment Form has been added to the Crime Contract Tender 2025 page.
New contingency arrangements for civil legal aid applications and amendments came into effect on Monday 15 December 2025.
An update following a cyber-attack on the Legal Aid Agency’s online digital services.
First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government
Announcing the launch of the improved ‘Check if you can get legal aid’ website, redesigned and user-focused.
The sending out CRM12s to providers who have verified their tenders in stage 1 of the crime procurement process has begun.
Clients are encouraged to annotate their bank statements with the nature, source, and frequency of credits when applying for a representation order.
Criminal legal aid will be bolstered by £24 million, as part of government work to tackle crisis in the justice system and keep courts running.
Innocent people who have suffered miscarriages of justice, personal harm or injury are among those who will benefit from upcoming changes to legal aid means testing coming into effect this year.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Criminal legal aid solicitors working in police stations and youth courts will receive a pay increase to reflect the importance and complexity of their work, the Lord Chancellor has announced today (29 January 2024).
Over 6 million more people now eligible for legal aid advice and representation.
Criminal legal aid lawyers will receive the biggest boost to their pay in decades thanks to wide-ranging reforms announced by the government today (30 November 2022).
Legislation implementing fee increases for barristers and solicitors has been laid today (20 July 2022) as part of £135 million of additional investment in the criminal legal aid system.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Thousands more vulnerable people will have help navigating civil and family legal issues thanks to increased government investment in legal support.
Criminal barristers will receive a 15 percent fee rise from the end of September, the government has confirmed today (30 June 2022).
More than £10 million a year of additional funding for housing legal aid.
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