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Legal Aid

We are approved providers of Legal Aid for Civil, Family and Criminal matters.

If you need Legal Aid to pay your legal costs, and you qualify to receive Legal Aid, you need to complete the Legal Aid Form applicable to your circumstances.

Please click on the applicable form  as set out below and fill it out as best you can. Then print it out and post it to us or, if possible, scan it and email it us.

Civil and Family Matters

This page contains links to Legal Aid Application forms. If you wish to apply for Legal Aid, please fill them in as best you can and bring them in to us. We can help you complete them. If you do not know an exact figure, estimate it. Legal Aid need a general idea of your situation so they can decide whether you are eligible.

Criminal Matters

Please note: if you are involved a criminal matter Legal Aid assigns you a Lawyer.
There are several exceptions to this including:

1. If you have a Parole Matter; or

2. You are a previous client of ours who has been sentenced to Community Detention or Supervision and need to make an application to vary the sentence; or

3. You want to appeal your Sentence or Conviction.


Legal Aid Application Forms:

  • Civil

  • Family

  • Criminal - 
  1. Police Prosecution
  2. Crown Prosecution
We suggest you download the Legal Aid Form which you need to complete to your computer, if you have one, and then complete the form on  screen and save it. Then send it to us by attaching it to an email to us.

If you do not have a computer, please go to an internet shop and ask them to download it and print it off for you, complete it and post it to us.

Location:
PO Box 10107, 
Wellington 6143


Contact us:
Telephone   +644 472 9369
E-mail: jad@jdlo.co.nz
Zoom - By Appointment
www.jdlo.co.nz