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Legal Advice

Community Legal Service Direct

If you live in England or Wales and want free high-quality legal information to help you deal with your legal problems, Community Legal Service Direct (CLS Direct) can help. You can:

  • read free legal information leaflets
  • search for a high-quality local legal adviser or solicitor
  • search for legal information from a selection of the best advice websites in the UK
  • find out if you can get CLS-funded help (legal aid)

call the national Community Legal service Direct helpline 0845 345 4 345 for problems to do with benefits, tax credits, housing,employment, education or debt

Citizens Advice Bureau

The official website for this resource : http://www.adviceguide.org.uk

Citizens Advice is a national charity which offers free and impartial advice to help you resolve legal, money and other problems. Visit their dedicated advice website for online information about debt, benefits, housing, legal issues, discrimination, employment, immigration, consumer rights and many other advice topics.

Citizens Advice employs over 21,000 trained volunteers and helps people to resolve nearly 5.3 million problems every year. They work to set standards for advice and equal opportunities as well as lobby for change and improvement to UK social policy.

Find out about local bureaux from the link on the right.

Page last updated on 24 May 2012