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The Community Legal Advice website provides free high quality legal information to help you deal with your problems.
What is available on this website?
Use our debt management tool to get free, impartial debt advice.
Read free legal information leaflets and factsheets
Our free leaflets and factsheets will help you understand your legal rights.
- Our leaflets are written by independent experts and outline your legal rights regarding debt, housing and benefits and oher areas of the law.
- Our factsheets provide quick answers to frequently asked legal questions, such as "what are the powers of bailiffs and debt collectors?"
Search for legal information
You can use this website to search for legal information from trusted organisations such as Shelter, Help the Aged and the BBC.
Click on one of the topics on the right that relates to your problem, or use the links to access some of the best advice websites in the UK.
Find a legal adviser
Our directory lets you find high-quality legal advisers or solicitors near you. It contains details of everybody who has the Community Legal Service Quality Mark.
Find out if you qualify for legal aid
Our legal aid calculator helps you work out if you're able to receive legal aid or not. It asks you confidential questions about your legal problem and financial situation.
Using this site
We have taken care to ensure this website can help as many people as possible:
- Information is available in English, Welsh, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Hindi, Turkish and Urdu.
- We are working with the Shaw Trust to ensure our website meets their Accessibility Plus standard. Our site is also compatible with Browsealoud.
More information about this website's accessibility features is available in our help section.
Credits
This website is owned and managed by the Legal Services Commission. If you have any comments or questions about this website, please contact us using our feedback form.