Legal services & advice

You can find information and advice on your rights and entitlements, including legal aid, through a range of sources: local advice agencies, solicitors, websites and telephone advice lines.

Local organisations

Tower Hamlets Community Legal Service Partnership has produced a directory of local organisations who are providers of information and advice in Tower Hamlets. This network aims to ensure everyone in Tower Hamlets has access to appropriate, high quality advice and legal services.

The Advice Providers Directory supplies contact details and opening times for local organisations that give advice, including solicitors and voluntary agencies in Tower Hamlets. All the local organisations listed hold the Community Legal Services quality mark.

For further information, please refer to the Advice Providers online directory.

Copies of the Advice Providers directory are also available in libraries and shops in Tower Hamlets.

Telephone advice line

Community Legal Service Direct provides free initial advice from a qualified legal advisor about welfare benefits, debt and education. The advice line is open on weekdays from 9 am to 5 pm. If you call outside office hours, please leave a message and you will be called back. To contact Community Legal Service advice line, please call:

Tel: 0845 345 4345

Useful links

You can find information and advice on your rights and entitlements through the following websites:

Citizen’s advice advice guide

The Citizen’s advice website provides details of your nearest Citizen’s advice bureau and also publishes up-to-date and independent advice on:

• Money – benefits, employment, tax and debt
• Family – family, health, housing and education
• Daily life – communications, consumer affairs and travel
• Rights – civil rights, immigration and the legal system

Tower Hamlets Advice Providers directory

The Advice Providers directory supplies contact details and opening times for local advice organisations, including solicitors and voluntary agencies in Tower Hamlets. All the local organisations listed hold the Community Legal Services quality mark.

This website is useful if you need information and advice on a legal problem and about costs and getting financial help.

The Community Legal Service Direct online directory provides details of all solicitors, advice agencies and information providers across England and Wales who hold or have committed to the Community Legal Services quality mark.

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