Changes in financial circumstances

We have the power to attach standard conditions to all our grants of summary criminal legal aid. Each grant is conditional on your client telling us about any material change in their financial circumstances during the lifetime of the case.

Currently, we need to know if their annual income and/or capital increases by more than £750 during the lifetime of the case. Where any change to income and/or capital would mean your client was no longer eligible to continue to receive summary legal aid, we will terminate the grant from the date of the change.

Assessing disposable income
Assessing disposable capital

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Financial eligibility for summary criminal legal aid

Undue hardship test in summary criminal legal aid applications

Learn about the undue hardship test in summary criminal applications and the information we need to assess it.

Financial eligibility for summary criminal legal aid

Assessing disposable income

Find out how we assess disposable income and what outgoings can be included.

Financial eligibility for summary criminal legal aid

Assessing disposable capital

Find out what we consider when assessing disposable capital and what we include and exclude in our calculations.