Margaret Powell House, Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes. MK9 3BN
Email: info@mediationmk.org Call Us On: 07702 680211
Margaret Powell House, Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes. MK9 3BN
Email: info@mediationmk.org Call Us On: 07702 680211
If you have low levels of income and savings, then you may be entitled to Legal Aid, in which case you are eligible for free mediation. We assess your income and capital in line with the Legal Aid Agency criteria at assessment.
To find out whether or not you are entitled to legal aid you will need to provide full details of your current financial circumstances and provide documentary evidence.
You can go through a form on the .gov.uk/check-legal-aid site Legal Aid Agency to get an idea whether you might get legal aid but you will still need to provide evidence when you come to the mediation information assessment meeting. You can use this ‘Evidence Necessary for Means Assessment for Legal Aid’ checklist
To help you gather together all the evidence you will need to bring to your first mediation information assessment meeting, MIAM. If you bring all the documents you need the mediator will be able to fill in the form with you there and then.
Your eligibility for legal aid will be based on what income you have received over the last four weeks immediately before your meeting and the documents you bring to the meeting needs to evidence that. if you don’t bring the documents we may not be able to help you on that day and the meeting will only go ahead if you pay the £90 at the meeting . If it turns out you can get legal aid the £90 will be paid back to you.
This scheme is open to anyone who is mediation to conclude child matters and will cover up to two joint mediation sessions and is not dependent on your income or savings. We can apply for you provided you have not already taken up the voucher scheme previously. Please note that the voucher scheme covers the mediation sessions only and not the MIAM, paperwork or child inclusive sessions.
If you are eligible for Legal Aid, there will be no charge to you. Otherwise, payment is on a session by session basis.
Assessment: £108 plus Vat per person. Mediation sessions (which usually last 1.5 hours) are then charged on a sliding scale, dependent on your individual income. These figures are based on gross income (including any tax credits, child support and child benefit) before tax.
| Under £25,000: | £96 plus VAT per person per hour |
| £25,001 to £40,000: | £120 plus VAT per person per hour |
| £40,001 and over: | £144 plus VAT per person per hour |
Our charges cover the mediator’s time during the sessions plus associated work outside the meetings, provision of summaries of the outcome of sessions, and all administration costs, including phone calls, letters and communication with solicitors.
Couples paying privately can see a breakdown of all the charges according to their level of income in the document here
Please see our cost schedule and other services page for details.