Excluded Services
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