We undertake a large volume of publicly funded (“legally aided”) work funded by the Legal Services Commission (“LSC”).  Our clients are required to meet the eligibility criteria for LSC work which means that they are required to fall within the criteria for financial assistance and their case needs to be relatively strong in merits, i.e. they need to have good or reasonable prospects of success and meet the cost benefit criteria.  We are probably the leading legal aid practice in bankruptcy in the country and undertake a large amount of solicitor’s negligence work, fraud and housing cases funding on legal aid specialising in larger types of High Court cases.  A large amount of our cases are conducted in the Royal Courts of Justice, particularly in the Bankruptcy Division at the Royal Courts of Justice.

We undertake a large amount of defending Bankruptcy Petition work and have a vast amount of experience in defending those Petitions, particularly presented by the Revenue & Customs for unpaid income taxes and local authorities for unpaid Council Tax.

Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights was brought into force by the Human Rights Act 1998 (“HRA 98”) which prescribes that a citizen is entitled to proper and expert legal representation in ensuring that he has a right to a fair and just trial which also includes the right to proper expert preparation for a Court hearing as preparation is vital to the success at a hearing.

 

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