ABSTRACT
You should explain to your legally aided client that the provision of legal aid for these types of proceedings operates rather like a loan and must be paid back out of any money or property recovered or preserved in the proceedings by virtue of the statutory charge. In matrimonial matters, the first £2,500 is exempt from the statutory charge, but anything recovered over that sum attracts the charge. The charge does not extend to costs ordered to be paid by an assisted party to an unassisted party.
