Until March 2000, Legal Aid was available for any type of legal case provided it
was being dealt with by proceedings in a court rather than a tribunal. The only
real exception was libel and slander. Now a number of types of case are
specifically excluded. They are not well defined and there are exceptions to the
exclusions and the Lord Chancellor has power to authorise Legal Aid for further
exceptions as well. The list of disputes that cannot now be covered is as
follows.
- Damage to property or personal injury caused by negligence
- Conveyancing
- Boundary disputes
- Making a Will
- Matters of trust law
- Defamation or malicious falsehood
- Matters of company or partnership law
- Other matters arising out of the carrying on of the client's business