The short answer
Family Legal Ltd, which operates this website, is not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. This website is a general information service, not a regulated legal service, and providing information about the law is not a reserved legal activity. Nothing here is legal advice.
What is and is not regulated
| Position | |
|---|---|
| Family Legal Ltd | Not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority |
| This website | A general information service. Not a regulated legal service |
| Legal advice on your case | Not provided here. Nothing on this site is advice |
| Eligibility decisions | Not made here. Only the Legal Aid Agency or a contracted provider can decide |
| Family mediation | Provided by our sister service Mediate UK, which is separate. See below |
Why this matters
Some legal work is reserved by law to regulated people: conducting litigation, exercising rights of audience, certain probate and conveyancing work. Explaining how a public funding scheme works is not among them, and this site does not do any reserved work.
The practical consequence for you is that the protections attached to instructing a regulated solicitor, including their compulsory professional indemnity insurance and access to the Legal Ombudsman, do not apply to reading a website. They apply when you instruct a regulated firm, which is one of several reasons to do so where your case needs it.
Our sister mediation service
Family Legal Ltd also operates Mediate UK, a family mediation service. Family mediation is regulated separately from solicitors: mediators are accredited through the Family Mediation Council and its member bodies, and legally aided mediation is provided under a contract with the Legal Aid Agency.
Mediate UK holds a Legal Aid Agency contract and can offer legally aided mediation, subject to your eligibility and to your case being suitable for mediation. That is a different organisation from this website, and this website does not provide mediation.
How we make money and who runs this site set out the relationship in full.
Important information
We do not state or imply that Family Legal Ltd, this website or its services are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, because they are not. If you see anything on this site that suggests otherwise, tell us and we will correct it immediately.
Data protection
Family Legal Ltd is the data controller for this website. Our privacy policy sets out what we do and do not collect, which on this site is remarkably little: the site sets no cookies for readers and makes no third-party requests at all.