https://www.slab.org.uk/faqs/whats-the-most-you-may-to-have-to-pay-for-civil-legal-aid/
https://www.slab.org.uk/faqs/whats-the-most-you-may-to-have-to-pay-for-civil-legal-aid/
Depending on your disposable annual income you may have to pay a contribution from income.
We will do the calculation for you and show you how we have calculated your contribution.
You may also have to pay a contribution from any capital you have.
You may not have to pay all of the assessed contribution and you may be able to get some of your contribution back
If your solicitor's estimate of how much the case will cost is less than the contribution amount, we will re-set your contribution to the solicitor's estimate.
If we assess your contribution as £2,500 but your solicitor estimates that the case will cost £1,500, we will re-set your contribution to £1500.
For civil legal aid, we collect the contribution.
Contributions from capital are usually payable immediately.
contributions from income are usually payable by instalments.
If you do not pay your contribution, we can stop your legal aid and still make you pay for any costs we have had to pay for.
However, if you contact us to discuss problems with making payments, we will always do our best to help.
It may be that we can change the arrangements for payment or, if your circumstances have changed, we may be able to reassess the amount that you have to pay.
If we have to suspend or stop your legal aid because you have not paid your contribution, we will not pay your solicitor for any further work and they may not do any further work for you.
If any award of expenses against your opponent and any contribution you may have to pay does not cover your solicitor’s costs, you may have to pay the difference from any awarded money or property you get when your case settles.
In some cases all of the property recovered or preserved may have to be used to pay the costs.