Responsibility for government policy on legal aid was transferred from the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) to the Ministry of Justice on 9 May 2007, but information on legal aid as at that date, covering public funding, Community Legal Service legislation, and relevant reports and consultation papers, has been retained in this section of the archived DCA web site.

The Law Society's occasional newsletter, produced by its Access to Justice Committee, providing information and advice on developments in legal aid practice. Elsewhere on the Law Society site there are separate sections devoted to civil, criminal, and immigration legal aid: to access these select "Areas of Law" from the menu on the left of each page.

Much of LAPG's web site is accessible only by members, but content available to non-members who log in as "guests" includes news articles and a wide range of consultation and other documents relating to legal aid practice in the UK.

The Legal Services Commission (LSC) administers the legal aid system in England and Wales, comprising the Community Legal Service (the civil legal aid scheme) and the Criminal Defence Service (criminal legal aid). It also runs the Community Legal Advice service, offering free legal advice for the general public. The site has information about the Commission and its work, consultation papers, press releases, forms, a newsletter and an eligibility calculator. There are links (via Criminal Defence Service) to the Access to Justice Act 1999 and to SIs made under it.

The Legal Services Research Centre (LSRC), formerly the Legal Aid Board Research Unit, is the independent research division of the Legal Services Commission. Some recent research papers and other LSRC publications may be downloaded, and there is information on current project areas.

This independent review, led by Lord Carter of Coles, looked at new methods for procuring legal services with legal aid. Information and documentation on the site (which is now archived) includes the full texts both of Lord Carter's interim report, Procurement of criminal defence services: market-based reform, published February 2006, and of his final report, Legal aid: a market-based approach to reform, published 13 July 2006.

The Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission assumed responsibility for the administration of legal aid from the Law Society of Northern Ireland in November 2003. The site includes press releases, publications and a searchable database of solicitors.

This is the body responsible for managing legal aid in Scotland. Publications available online of particular interest to practitioners include the Scottish Legal Assistance Handbooks and other guidance, the Scottish legal aid handbook, the quarterly newsletter The Recorder (Winter 1988/1989 to October 2005) and annual reports (1987/1988 onwards). Legal Aid Online is a recently-launched service allowing paper-free applications for legal aid.