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Find out if you may qualify financially for legal assistance.

Financial tests

• Your financial situation – can you afford your legal costs without help from us?

Merits tests

• You have 'probable cause' – is there a legal basis to take your case forward?
• It's reasonable to spend public money to support your case – is it likely to succeed?

Personal information

Most of the information is about:

• Individual people and their applications for legal aid
• The solicitors and advocates who carry out legal aid
• How the legal aid system is working – what help people are receiving and how much it costs
• How we run the legal aid system.

The General Data Protection Regulation

Send information (make a representation) about a case you are involved in

• Your name
• Address
• The Legal Aid Reference Number (LARN) of the case you are making a representation about (if known)
• Whether you give us permission to disclose them to the applicant.

Solicitors – contact a specific team or department

Submit a Representation (Solicitor)

Technical help

Ask a question, request call back, give feedback or add firm administrator using the below form.

Notify us if your firm details - address, contact details, solicitors - change

• Your address
• Contact details such as email or phone
• Solicitors working at your firm - you must notify us if someone registered with us joins or leaves the firm.

Update your firm's details on the Solicitor Finder

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Scottish National Standards for Information and Advice Providers

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