Leonard Cannings has Legal Aid contracts in the following areas of law:

Family Issues:

• Family mediation to resolve disputes about children and finance on a relationship breakdown
• Social Services being involved with your children
• Injunctions against a violent or abusive partner or family member
• Other family problems if you or your child have suffered or are at risk of violence or abuse
• Forced marriages

Housing:

• Possession proceedings and eviction - including counterclaims for disrepair
• Unlawful eviction
• Homelessness including asylum support for accommodation
• Anti social-behaviour cases
• Harassment injunctions
• Serious disrepair

Asylum & Immigration:

• Asylum applications
• Detention
• Applying for indefinite leave to remain after relationship breakdown due to domestic violence or an EU citizen applying to stay after domestic violence
• Applying to stay as a victim of trafficking
• Proceedings before SIAC
• TPIM notices
• Applications for asylum support (if you have applied for housing and financial support)
• Compensation claims relating to human trafficking and modern day slavery

Crime:

• Being arrested charged or questioned by the police