Is Legal Aid (public funding) available for product liability cases?
The Legal Services Commission (LSC) is responsible for Legal Aid, or public funding as it is now known. We have a contract with the Legal Services Commission for multi-party action cases which means we are approved by them to run product liability cases. Public funding for a product liability case is however not available unless one can demonstrate that the claim will have a wider public interest. This can be demonstrated if there are a number of people who have been injured by the defective product in question. However, Legal Aid for public interest cases is very limited and often not available even when a wider public interest can be established and claimants can satisfy that their income is low enough to qualify for legal aid.
