Free legal advice

[NorthenMonk]

Does anybody know resources for free legal advice if you’re not entitled to legal aid?

I’d like to seek advice on bringing a case against my ex for false allegations and coercive control. I appreciate being a man that the police are very unlikely to listen, but there have been some positive cases in the media recently.

My ex has made some serious allegations and there are a lot of provable lies. She keeps making them. Police have NFA so far but the whole experience has really impacted upon me.

I have an immense sense of injustice and really need to investigate my options further.

I also need some advice with navigating the family court now that there is a barring order in place.

Any advice or recommendations on good solicitors that don’t rip you off?

 

[Resolute]

Does anybody know resources for free legal advice if you’re not entitled to legal aid?

I’d like to seek advice on bringing a case against my ex for false allegations and coercive control. I appreciate being a man that the police are very unlikely to listen, but there have been some positive cases in the media recently.

My ex has made some serious allegations and there are a lot of provable lies. She keeps making them. Police have NFA so far but the whole experience has really impacted upon me.

I have an immense sense of injustice and really need to investigate my options further.

I also need some advice with navigating the family court now that there is a barring order in place.

Any advice or recommendations on good solicitors that don’t rip you off?

This is not free legal advice, but it is a way of having a conversation and potentially being signposted:

False Allegations Support Organisation FASO

FASO is a voluntary organisation dedicated to supporting anyone affected by false allegations. These can affect people in all walks of life.

false-allegations.org.uk

Here are other bits worth a shot, you've probably seen already and they are not surefire:

We Are Advocate

Advocate: Finding free legal help from barristers

Advocate: Finding free legal help from barristers

weareadvocate.org.uk

Advocate

Pro bono advice centres are offered by universities and used to give experience to law students. They sometimes take on cases and play an active part, but mostly they interview you and write a letter of advice.

If you want to go down the avenue of coercive control, it is worth engaging with a dv service or a counsellor so your experiences are on record. The police may not help greatly. But, if you tie in the impact ex's behavious has on the child and carefully measure how what has been done to you is criminal, it may be worth making a report. They are extremely prone to walk away as soon as they hear anything is going on in a civil court, it needs to be clearly presented as criminal.

Please make sure you are giving yourself opportunity to offload, CALM, Samaritans... It is really important to let your thoughts and feelings flow freely from time to time. A conversation with a stranger who wants to understand and acknowledge what you are going through can be a tonic. I had friends and family to speak with, but I needed the helplines as well.

 

[Scotay]

Does anybody know resources for free legal advice if you’re not entitled to legal aid?

I’d like to seek advice on bringing a case against my ex for false allegations and coercive control. I appreciate being a man that the police are very unlikely to listen, but there have been some positive cases in the media recently.

My ex has made some serious allegations and there are a lot of provable lies. She keeps making them. Police have NFA so far but the whole experience has really impacted upon me.

I have an immense sense of injustice and really need to investigate my options further.

I also need some advice with navigating the family court now that there is a barring order in place.

Any advice or recommendations on good solicitors that don’t rip you off?

Really mate you are wasting your time going along this route.
What do you want to achieve, private prosecution against the ex, slander?

Me , i was accused of dozens of false allegations many that had me arrested and held in custody for interview before NFA.
What i did was raise an official complaint against the police and them not investigating allegation first before arrest and being party to my ex using them to cause harrasment and it worked.

I got an apology from the police and the ex was warned about her future conduct regarding false allegations. It also went well in court as it showed a pattern of alienation and harrasment.

 

[Resolute]

Really mate you are wasting your time going along this route.
What do you want to achieve, private prosecution against the ex, slander?

Me , i was accused of dozens of false allegations many that had me arrested and held in custody for interview before NFA.
What i did was raise an official complaint against the police and them not investigating allegation first before arrest and being party to my ex using them to cause harrasment and it worked.

I got an apology from the police and the ex was warned about her future conduct regarding false allegations. It also went well in court as it showed a pattern of alienation and harrasment.

It was a waste of time for me as well. Only benefit is a paper trail with services I used. E.g. Victim Support.

Explore all options, but I like the route Scotay took.

 

[Scotay]

It was a waste of time for me as well. Only benefit is a paper trail with services I used. E.g. Victim Support.

Explore all options, but I like the route Scotay took.

Yep, make it sure you are not complaining about the police officers or their actions, they are only following an order to arrest and investigate, you need them on your side.

Make sure your complaint is the police being used, remember to emphasise that they are being used to cause harrasment.

A more senior inspector is duty bound to investigate this in a quick timeframe and as he/she is more experienced is likely to have seen this many times before.

Later me ex would call them with more allegations and the police would just tell her to get on her way with a threat to arrest her for wasting time.

 

[scooter]

Really mate you are wasting your time going along this route.
What do you want to achieve, private prosecution against the ex, slander?

Me , i was accused of dozens of false allegations many that had me arrested and held in custody for interview before NFA.
What i did was raise an official complaint against the police and them not investigating allegation first before arrest and being party to my ex using them to cause harrasment and it worked.

I got an apology from the police and the ex was warned about her future conduct regarding false allegations. It also went well in court as it showed a pattern of alienation and harrasment.

I also did the same but I copied in my local MP as well! Things need to change and hopefully they will if we just keep on fighting for change

 

[NorthenMonk]

This is not free legal advice, but it is a way of having a conversation and potentially being signposted:

False Allegations Support Organisation FASO

FASO is a voluntary organisation dedicated to supporting anyone affected by false allegations. These can affect people in all walks of life.

false-allegations.org.uk

Here are other bits worth a shot, you've probably seen already and they are not surefire:

We Are Advocate

Advocate: Finding free legal help from barristers

Advocate: Finding free legal help from barristers

weareadvocate.org.uk

Advocate

Pro bono advice centres are offered by universities and used to give experience to law students. They sometimes take on cases and play an active part, but mostly they interview you and write a letter of advice.

If you want to go down the avenue of coercive control, it is worth engaging with a dv service or a counsellor so your experiences are on record. The police may not help greatly. But, if you tie in the impact ex's behavious has on the child and carefully measure how what has been done to you is criminal, it may be worth making a report. They are extremely prone to walk away as soon as they hear anything is going on in a civil court, it needs to be clearly presented as criminal.

Please make sure you are giving yourself opportunity to offload, CALM, Samaritans... It is really important to let your thoughts and feelings flow freely from time to time. A conversation with a stranger who wants to understand and acknowledge what you are going through can be a tonic. I had friends and family to speak with, but I needed the helplines as well.

Thank you, that’s appreciated Uve contacted FASO and will look into the pro bono advice too. Many thanks.

 

[Ash]

Really mate you are wasting your time going along this route.
What do you want to achieve, private prosecution against the ex, slander?

Me , i was accused of dozens of false allegations many that had me arrested and held in custody for interview before NFA.
What i did was raise an official complaint against the police and them not investigating allegation first before arrest and being party to my ex using them to cause harrasment and it worked.

I got an apology from the police and the ex was warned about her future conduct regarding false allegations. It also went well in court as it showed a pattern of alienation and harrasment.

Agree. You are not the only person to feel an immense sense of injustice, but you need to keep focused on getting a child arrangements order. And honestly you won't get very far and it will just create more hostility in family court and Cafcass see you as making allegations (which you are, even if they are true), class it as conflict between parents and recommend you hardly ever see your kids due to the conflict. You need to play the game to get a good child arrangements order.

I looked into this once, so I understand the horror of being falsely accused of something. The only real routes are - Defamation of character (which is prohibitively expensive to pursue) and could go on for years.

You'd do better having some counselling to help cope with the situation, and continue being the calm, reasonable parent of the two, throughout family court proceedings. It maybe goes against the grain but you need to look at getting a result with your kids. Surprisingly, once you get that, the allegations don't seem to bother you any more I found - because the ex didn't manage to achieve what she was trying to achieve.

 

[NorthenMonk]

A little concerned as she keeps trying to get it reopened and made a further allegation of coercive control. I’m mindful of having no complaint registered with the police that sets out my position, as a further ’green’ DC may consider reopening and I find myself arrested again. The police are only interested in proving your guilt and I’d like to head it off at the pass. Also, the sheer number of allegations, that SS take on the ‘balance of probabilities’ starts to tip the scales the other way. This is what has happened to me with the new social worker, whom believes everything the ex has said. Once it’s documented and unchallenged it’s difficult to change.