COURT GUIDE RESOURCES
Help with your next step
Understand the process, find the right support and prepare with confidence. Explore practical guidance alongside clearly explained official data.
START WITH THE PROBLEM
Which route should you take?
Complaints, appeals and mediation do different jobs. Find a starting point for your issue, then check the official requirements.
Find a route →LEAVE WITH A PLAN
Free preparation tools
Create a hearing pack, organise evidence and dates, prepare for a solicitor appointment, or plan costs and access needs.
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Benefits appeals
PIP, disability and other benefit appeals: national tribunal figures, preparation and routes to welfare-rights advice.
Explore →154 DATA RESOURCESSEND, EHCP and education appeals
English council EHC plan data, assessment timeliness and SEND appeal activity, alongside the separate Welsh ALN route.
Explore →354 DATA RESOURCESHousing, repairs and landlord complaints
Compare published landlord tenant-satisfaction measures and understand repairs, complaint, possession and tribunal routes.
Explore →36 DATA RESOURCESParking and traffic penalty appeals
Authority-level London appeal figures, Traffic Penalty Tribunal context and clear distinctions between council, private and criminal penalties.
Explore →74 DATA RESOURCESCoroners and inquests
Coroner-area activity and published inquest duration, practical preparation and bereavement support in England and Wales.
Explore →1 DATA RESOURCESEmployment disputes and tribunals
Acas conciliation data, employee and employer preparation, official forms and local employment-law help.
Explore →285 DATA RESOURCESCouncil complaints and remedies
Council-level complaints, investigation outcomes and remedy figures, with the right route for administration complaints and statutory appeals.
Explore →57 DATA RESOURCESFamily mediation and funded outreach
LAA-listed mediation providers and outreach locations, funding checks, remote options and preparation for a first discussion.
Explore →1 DATA RESOURCESComplaints about legal services
How to raise a service complaint, distinguish regulation from redress, and read published Legal Ombudsman data in context.
Explore →43 DATA RESOURCESPolice force recorded crime data
Whole-force Home Office offence counts and quarterly trends, separate from street-level crime maps and court outcomes.
Explore →315 DATA RESOURCESCommunity safety partnership crime data
Home Office recorded offences across entire community safety partnerships, with quarterly trends and offence categories.
Explore →3 DATA RESOURCESCriminal justice outcomes
Published Ministry of Justice prosecution, conviction and sentencing measures, explained separately from police recorded crime.
Explore →316 DATA RESOURCESRoad collisions and support
Local authority injury-collision counts from DfT, severity context and routes to practical and legal support.
Explore →Finding help and preparing
Find free legal advice and practical support
Choose between welfare-rights advice, law centres, university clinics, court support, SEND help and regulated legal representation.
Find the right complaint, mediation or appeal route
A practical route finder for housing, council, legal-service, financial, consumer, family and employment disputes.
Solicitors, immigration advisers and public-access barristers
Understand regulated legal roles, check professional registers and ask about scope, fees and representation before instructing an adviser.
Compare solicitors’ published fees and services
Find published pricing evidence and compare scope, VAT, expenses and exclusions before choosing a solicitor.
After a hearing: orders, payment, enforcement and appeals
Practical next steps after court, including checking the order, payment, enforcement, transcripts, appeals and complaints.
Help after a crime and support for witnesses
Find official victim information, witness support, practical court preparation and routes to specialist help.
Local access to courts and legal help: evidence and limits
Explore local legal-aid coverage, court facilities, court workload and practical access without confusing listed provision with available appointments.
Coverage is England and Wales unless a dataset is explicitly labelled Great Britain. Every data page identifies its source, reporting period and limitations. Read how the data is prepared.