Individuals
Regrettably PLP cannot offer an advice service directly to the public. We hope you will find our leaflets useful, and we have listed on this page some other websites where you can get general advice on public law (and other) issues.
We are only able to reply to advice queries from advisors or solicitors, often through our specialist support service. Any lawyer or advisor who does any legal aid work (in other words, has a contract with the Legal Services Commission and is part of the Community Legal Service) can seek support from us.
Members of the public should contact independent advice centres and Citizens' Advice Bureaux for advice. We will sometimes accept a referral from an advice agency if we have capacity and it is appropriate.
"The basis of judicial review rests in the free-standing principle that every action of a public body must be justified by law…."
Laws LJ in R (Beeson) v Dorset County Council [2003] UKHRR 353 at [17]
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