1. Legal aid schemes for members of the public Brian Ruddie, Defra Legal Advisers Treasury Solicitor’s Department Aarhus Convention - Task Force on Access to Justice Geneva - 25 February 2014

2. Provision of legal aid in England & Wales Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 Civil legal services Judicial review – potential to produce a benefit for individual, member of individual’s family or environment Nuisance – pollution of the environment 2

3. Eligibility tests Means test – income and capital –The Civil Legal Aid (Financial Resources and Payment for Services Regulations) 2013 –Benefits passport –Public interest waiver Merits test – proportionality and prospects of success –The Civil Legal Aid (Merits Criteria) Regulations 2013 –Judicial review reforms 3