MoJ drops wealth rule that denied legal aid to victims of domestic abuse
Last modified on Fri 18 Dec 2020 12.37 EST More victims of domestic violence will be eligible for legal aid after the Ministry of Justice agreed to drop restrictive “imaginary capital” rules for home ownership that falsely inflated their wealth and deprived them of help. The new regulations were introduced following a high court judgment in November which said that a single parent and domestic abuse survivor who had only £28 in the bank should not have been refused legal aid for a child custody case. Legal aid eligibility is assessed by a complex means test. The previous formula meant no...
Source: theguardian.com