Who is entitled to legal aid?
If you are fighting a legal case and can’t afford to pay for your legal fees, then you may be entitled to legal aid. Legal
Crockett & Co Solicitors is your Leeds family lawyer with years of experience and one of the only firms in Leeds to offer Legal Aid assistance. We also specialise in Will & Probate.
Family Law is an area of law that focuses on protecting the rights of families and individuals, and resolving disputes between family members.
Domestic violence law services provide legal assistance to survivors of domestic violence, and work to ensure that abusers are held accountable.
Childcare Law Service provides comprehensive legal advice on a variety of topics related to children and childcare.
FORCED MARRIAGE
We understand that forced marriages can be a distressing and sensitive topic. Our experienced team is here to provide you with confidential advice.
If you are based in Leeds, then visit our free, legal advice drop-in clinic. We offer a free initial consultation with limited legal advice.
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We believe passionately in representing those who are vulnerable. Our empathy and the extensive efforts we make on behalf of clients makes us the best solicitor in Leeds to care for your needs.
We are specialists in Childcare, Child Protection, Care Proceedings, Divorce, Child Abuse, representation in Court, Legal Aid and ALL aspects of Family Law, especially for vulnerable clients.
At Crockett & Co. Solicitors we believe everyone should be entitled to legal representation and as such take great pride in being able to provide publicly funded legal advice.
Welcome to Crockett & Co Solicitors! We are a family and public law firm located in Harehills, Leeds, Yorkshire. Our team of experts specializes in all areas of family law, including divorce, child custody, child residency and contact, domestic violence cases and child protection and adoption cases.
We also handle childcare law and pre-proceedings cases initiated by the Local Authority, making us the ideal choice for those seeking a specialist childcare lawyer with access to legal aid. Our services extend to forced marriage, female genital mutilation, injunctions, restraining orders, wills and probate, and change of name through Deed Poll.
As a compassionate law firm, we take pride in representing vulnerable clients. If you are in Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Wakefield, or anywhere across West Yorkshire, whether you need a family law solicitor, divorce lawyer, will and probate solicitor, or assistance with any aspect of family or childcare law, give us a call on our freephone number below.
If you are based in Leeds, then visit our free, legal advice drop-in clinic any Tuesday and Thursday between 2pm and 4:30pm (telephone appointments only during the pandemic – please ring 0113 226 0111 to book).
We offer a free initial consultation with limited legal advice.
If you are fighting a legal case and can’t afford to pay for your legal fees, then you may be entitled to legal aid. Legal
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilises various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilise an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilises an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimises its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimisation: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimisation: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to
This website utilises various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times.
To access the tools click below. These tools can also be accessed by a link in the footer of every page.