The short answer
Four free tools. They all run entirely inside your browser: nothing you enter is submitted, stored or transmitted, and it is gone the moment you close the tab. None of them is an assessment, and none of them can tell you that you qualify.
Legal aid route finder
Six questions, and it points you at which of the three funding routes might be worth asking about. It never says you qualify, because it cannot.
Compare the three routes
Mediation legal aid, the £500 voucher and solicitor legal aid side by side. Pick any two or three and see exactly where they differ.
Evidence checklist
Tick what applies to you and get a printable list of the documents to gather, with each one explained and where to get it.
Legal aid glossary
Search 25 legal aid terms and get a plain English explanation of what each one means in practice.
What these tools are, and are not
They are initial information tools. They are not official assessments, they are not guarantees, and they are subject to current Legal Aid Agency rules. Only the Legal Aid Agency, or a provider working under its contract, can decide whether you qualify for legal aid.
Use the official checker at GOV.UK, check if you can get legal aid alongside anything here.
Why nothing is stored
These tools ask about income, savings, and in one case about domestic abuse. That last one is special category data under UK GDPR, and the safest way to handle information like that is not to collect it in the first place.
So there is no server round-trip, no database and no analytics event carrying anything you type. You can complete the route finder and close the tab, and no record of it exists anywhere, including here.
The consequence you might notice is that nothing is saved between visits. Use the print button if you want to keep a result. Our privacy policy sets out the rest, and the short version is that this site sets no cookies and makes no third-party requests at all.
Where to go next
- Family legal aid: the overview, if you would rather read than click
- Eight things people wrongly believe about legal aid
- What to do if you do not qualify