Legal Aid 60 is an independent information website operated by Family Legal Ltd. It is not GOV.UK, the Legal Aid Agency or a government service, and it cannot decide whether you qualify for legal aid. About this site

Belinda Atkins

Who reviews this site

Belinda Atkins is Managing Director of Family Legal Ltd and the editorial reviewer for Legal Aid 60. Her own profile states plainly that she is not a practising family mediator or a solicitor, and this site describes her as the editorial reviewer, never as a legal reviewer.

In short

  • Role: Managing Director, Family Legal Ltd
  • Experience: more than seven years with the business, from business support through operations to Managing Director in 2022
  • Not: a practising family mediator, a solicitor or a barrister
  • Reviews: content for clarity and accuracy, not for legal correctness

What reviewing means here, and what it does not

Belinda reads the content before it publishes and checks that it is clear, that it says what it means, and that the sourcing is present and points where it claims to point. She oversees the review cycle, which on this site runs every three months rather than the usual six or twelve, because legal aid thresholds move.

What that review is not is a legal sign-off. Belinda is not legally qualified and we do not present her as though she were. Plenty of sites describe a reviewer in terms vague enough to borrow authority nobody actually holds. We would rather be specific and let you weigh it.

So what carries the accuracy?

Sourcing. Every threshold, fee and rule on this site links to the legislation, the Legal Aid Agency or GOV.UK at the point the claim is made. Our sources lists every one with the date it was last checked, including an honest section on the two places where the official sources currently contradict each other.

That is deliberate. On a site whose entire value is being right about figures, an auditable trail is worth more than a reviewer’s name.

Her wider role

Belinda oversees day to day operations across the business, including Mediate UK, the family mediation service run by the same company. She led the business when it was awarded Best Company Culture at the BizX Awards in 2025, and speaks at conferences and on podcasts about amicable divorce.

Her full profile is on the Mediate UK website: About Belinda Atkins.

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