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