Mental Health Law

Legal aid is generally for people in mental health detention who want to make applications to the Mental Health Tribunal, which is unlikely to be relevant for VAWG cases. However, if you want to see whether a solicitor specialising in mental health can assist can assist with a particular issue use the following:

• Gov.UK legal aid lawyers search engine
  This is a directory of all solicitors with a legal aid contract around the country – enter the town or postcode and tick “mental health”.

 There is no financial eligibility test for mental health legal aid, if the issue is in scope for legal aid.

Pro bono advice:

• Mind – mental health legal advice line
  You can call us between 9am and 6pm Monday to Friday (except Bank Holidays)
  Telephone: 0300 466 6463
  Email: legal@mind.org.uk
  

• Rethink Mental Illness – support for family members
  Telephone: 0300 5000 927

Need to contact us?

If you have looked at our signposting materials and you still want to contact us, you can send a message below. If you don’t feel that you can make a request in writing you can call us on 020 7092 1807 and leave a message and we will call you back. Please note that we don’t provide an emergency service so we may not be able to get back to you at busy periods for up to three working days. If your enquiry is not about violence against women and girls, then it is out of our remit and we won’t be able to assist.