Legal Guides by Situation
Find rights, guides, templates and tools tailored to your situation. Select the category that best describes you.
For Tenants
Know your rights as a private or social housing tenant, deal with disrepair, challenge eviction notices, and resolve deposit disputes.
For Landlords
Navigate rent arrears, possession proceedings, deposit rules, HMO licensing and landlord obligations under English law.
For Employees
Understand your rights at work, challenge unfair dismissal or redundancy, raise a grievance, and navigate employment tribunals.
For Employers
Manage dismissals lawfully, handle grievances and disciplinaries, understand redundancy obligations and employment contracts.
For Parents
Navigate child arrangements after separation, school exclusion appeals, SEND rights, and your legal rights as a parent.
For Consumers
Enforce your rights over faulty goods, claim refunds, challenge unfair practices, and resolve disputes with businesses.
For Victims of Crime
Understand the support and legal rights available to you after experiencing crime, including your rights under the Victims' Code.
For Criminal Defendants
Understand your rights if you have been arrested, charged or are facing trial, including bail rights and the criminal court process.
For Migrants
Understand immigration status, visa applications, asylum claims, nationality and the rights of people living in the UK.
For Small Businesses
Legal essentials for running a small business: company formation, contracts, employment, consumer rights compliance and debt recovery.
For Freelancers & Self-Employed
Protect your intellectual property, enforce contracts, understand your employment status and rights as a self-employed worker.
For Carers
Understand your legal rights as a carer, powers of attorney, care funding, mental capacity and support for those you look after.
For Leaseholders
Understand your rights as a leaseholder, challenge service charges, extend your lease, and exercise the right to manage.
For Litigants in Person
Represent yourself in court effectively with guides, templates and tools covering civil litigation procedure and court rules.
For Disabled People
Know your rights under the Equality Act 2010, challenge benefit decisions, request reasonable adjustments, and access legal support.
For Company Directors
Director duties, ECCTA 2023 identity verification, Companies House compliance, and personal liability risks.
For Students
University complaints, academic appeals, OIA referral, student finance, and student housing rights.
For Asylum Seekers
Asylum claim process, initial decision, Tribunal appeals, judicial review, and fresh claims.
For Homeowners
Buying and selling property, mortgage disputes, building work, neighbour disputes, and planning.
For Drivers
Speeding, parking, NIPs, totting up, exceptional hardship, drink/drug driving, and insurance disputes.
For Contractors
IR35, employment status, agency rules, unpaid invoices, and contractor-specific tax and employment issues.
For Charity Trustees
Trustee duties, Charity Commission compliance, conflicts of interest, serious incident reports, and trustee liability.
For Journalists
FOI requests, defamation, source protection, contempt of court, reporting restrictions, and public-interest reporting.
For Campaigners
Protest rights, public-order policing, judicial review, regulator complaints, and lobbying transparency.
For Data Subjects
DSARs, erasure, ICO complaints, damages for distress, automated decision-making, and direct marketing.
For Online Harassment Victims
Protection from Harassment Act, Malicious Communications, Online Safety Act, platform reporting, and evidence preservation.
For Domestic Abuse Survivors
Emergency injunctions, occupation orders, criminal process, housing rights, and immigration protections.
For Older People
Pensions, care home fees, deprivation of assets, LPAs, age discrimination, and elder financial abuse.
For Executors
Probate application, IHT, estate administration, beneficiary disputes, and executor liability.
For Beneficiaries
Rights as a beneficiary, contested wills, Inheritance Act claims, and executor accountability.
For Creditors
Debt recovery routes, statutory demands, winding-up petitions, charging orders, and enforcement.
For Debtors
Defending CCJ, set-aside, Breathing Space, IVA / DRO / bankruptcy, bailiffs, and statute-barred debts.
For NHS Patients
Complaints process, PHSO referral, clinical negligence, mental health rights, and data access.
For School Pupils and Parents
Admissions, exclusions, SEND/EHCP, bullying, discrimination, and academic appeals at school level.
For Public-Sector Complainants
Local authority complaints, NHS, government department complaints, ombudsman escalation, and judicial review.