Solicitors Panel

Welcome to the National Centre for Domestic Violence (NCDV), where we provide crucial support to victims of domestic abuse across England and Wales. Our primary focus is on offering legal protection through court orders to those in need.

We invite legal aid law firms to join our panel in areas where our current coverage does not adequately meet the demand for our services. NCDV operates independently without government funding. Instead, we generate our own income by offering solicitors an optional document drafting service and process serving service. We take great pride in the quality of our work and our commitment to providing exceptional service enables us to support vulnerable victims regardless of their financial position.

Each year, we support around 4,500 victim-survivors, who were unable to access legal aid or afford a solicitor, as a litigant in person. We are the leading organisation providing this volume of free support.

We offer a human-led dedicated service that is trauma-informed and supportive. Every one of our 90 – 100,000 annual referrals matter. To us, each one is an individual, with an individual story. We are committed to providing a high-quality and speedy service to help keep people safe.

We work with solicitors who share our ethos and values, and who can offer victim-survivors the service they need and deserve. When solicitors join our panel, we seek those who deliver a compassionate, compliant service, preferably with experience in working with people impacted by domestic abuse.

To facilitate mutual understanding, we have developed a questionnaire for solicitors interested in joining our panel. This questionnaire allows us to learn more about you and your business, building the necessary trust to entrust our clients’ wellbeing into your hands. We also help you onboard to become one of family of panel solicitors.

For more information about the arrangements for legal aid firms to be on an NCDV panel, please contact us to discuss at office@ncdv.org.uk