Community Legal Service

The aim of the Community Legal Service is to ensure that people can get information and advice about their legal rights and help with enforcing them. Bringing together legal aid solicitors, Citizens' Advice Bureaux, Law Centres, local authority services and other organisations in local networks, the Community Legal Service is an important part of the Government's fight against social exclusion.

Organisations giving legal and advice services within the Community Legal Service have already won the right to display the distinctive logo, showing that they meet the Quality Mark Standards for legal and advice services. Any legal services provider who wishes to be part of the Community Legal Service must achieve the minimum standards set by the Quality Mark. On this website you can:
• Search for a quality local legal adviser or solicitor
• Ask a question or choose a common topic and be directed to the best advice websites
• See if you are eligible for legal aid funding by using our online calculator (see below)
• View and print independently-written legal information leaflets on a range of popular topics

www.clsdirect.org.uk