How to Find Legal Aid

First and foremost, it is probably necessary to state the fact that legal assistance in the UK is no longer actually referred to as legal aid. The service is offered through Community Legal Services (CLS) and this covers a number of different areas of law.

For the more trivial areas of civil law, you may need to accept that legal assistance is not going to be available. An excellent example here being for cases that involve personal injury claims. Legal assistance bills are increasing massively year-on-year and this is the main reason why the government scrapped the availability of legal aid in certain areas of law in 2000.

Another important thing to remember with legal assistance is that there may not be a huge choice of solicitors in all parts of the country. For the widest choice of solicitors London will always come out on top. (more...)

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