Public Funding / Legal Aid

Public Funding, (previously known as Legal Aid) allows for state funding of legal cases in certain limited legal and financial circumstances. Applicants for public funding must show that they meet the financial test and that their case has a reasonable prospect of being successful. There must also be no alternative sources of funding or representation available that would be more suitable for your case.

There are other various forms of help, such as legal help and criminal public funding. Criminal public funding is not means tested, and so is available to everyone.

If your case is publicly funded and you win compensation or damages or hang onto to your property or assets a statutory charge will be applied. This is to recover the legal costs incurred in your case.