{"id":4991,"date":"2023-06-28T09:44:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2023-07-26T08:44:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T08:44:54","slug":"government-extends-legal-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/government-extends-legal-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Government extends legal aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"A-Basicstorywritingstyle\"><span lang=\"X-NONE\">More domestic abuse victims-survivors will have access to legal aid in England and Wales after Westminster government reforms have ensured 6m-plus more people are eligible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"A-Basicstorywritingstyle\"><span lang=\"X-NONE\">Those on universal credit and seeking a protection order for themselves or their children against their attackers can more easily obtain legal aid without a means test, the ministry of justice said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"A-Basicstorywritingstyle\"><span lang=\"X-NONE\">The upper income limit for magistrates\u2019 court representation has been raised to \u00a334,950 from \u00a322,325, and for civil cases to \u00a334,950 from \u00a331,884. Also, disputed or inaccessible assets will no longer be considered when assessing someone\u2019s financial eligibility for aid, the ministry added. That is expected to benefit those who have a joint mortgage with their abuser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"A-Basicstorywritingstyle\"><span lang=\"X-NONE\">The government has pledged \u00a325m annually to boost the legal aid system.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More domestic abuse victims-survivors will have access to legal aid in England and Wales after Westminster government reforms have ensured 6m-plus more people are eligible. Those on universal credit and seeking a protection order for themselves or their children against their attackers can more easily obtain legal aid without a means test, the ministry of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4993,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions\/4993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncdvmagazine.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}