Funding Your Case
At Jemek Solicitors Limited, we understand that funding your legal case can be a source of concern and uncertainty.
Our team of legal experts are committed to providing clear and transparent information about our fees and funding options, ensuring that our clients are fully informed and able to make informed decisions about how to proceed with their case.
Legal cases cost money. Before we start working on your case, we'll explain what it will cost and how you can pay for it. Some clients qualify for legal aid, others pay privately. We'll help you understand which option applies to you.
Do You Pay Your Own Fees Or Require Legal Aid?
Fee Paying Clients
Clear and transparent pricing for privately funded legal representation.
We offer competitive, transparent pricing structures, including fixed fees for certain services and hourly billing for more complex legal matters. Our team will provide a full breakdown of costs during your initial consultation.
Where possible, we offer structured payment plans to help clients manage legal fees effectively. This ensures that you can receive the legal support you need without financial strain.
During your first consultation, we will evaluate your case and provide clear cost estimates. We prioritise efficiency and cost-effectiveness to ensure you receive the best legal support within your budget.
Legal Aid
Assistance for those who meet financial eligibility criteria for government-funded legal support.
The firm holds legal aid franchises in family and in immigration. Eligibility is assessed on your means and then on the merits of the case, and we carry that assessment out at the consultation. It is the assessment, not the enquiry, that decides how your case proceeds.
The consultation is £180, plus VAT at 20% where UK VAT applies to you. Two things remove it. The first is a legal aid certificate you already hold. The second is a matter that is care proceedings brought by a local authority, where a parent or anyone with parental responsibility is entitled without being means or merits tested.
The checker above is not a certificate. It estimates eligibility, it does not grant it, and we cannot waive the fee on a checker result. Only the certificate is proof. Outside those two situations the fee is payable and is not negotiable.
Available for protection from domestic abuse, for child protection proceedings, and for other family matters subject to the tests. In care and supervision proceedings brought by a local authority, a parent or anyone with parental responsibility is neither means tested nor merits tested, and that applies from the moment a letter before proceedings arrives.
Asylum and protection work is in scope for legal aid, as is advice on immigration detention and applications for immigration bail, whatever the underlying matter. Most other immigration work, including family visas and the EU Settlement Scheme, was taken out of scope in 2013 and is privately funded, though Exceptional Case Funding can be applied for where refusing it would breach your rights.
We will tell you what evidence of your income and capital is needed and make the application for you. If you do not qualify we will say so at that point, and explain what the work would cost instead. The certificate is issued by the Legal Aid Agency, not by us, which is why we cannot treat an estimate as one.