Please complete the client record form and a pre-mediation questionnaire you will find on the right-hand side of the webpage supporting this section.
Because the pre-mediation questionnaire is such an important part of the whole process we dedicate a whole of the next chapter of the Manual to completing this document- How to complete your pre-mediation questionnaire.
Either print these documents off, complete them and send them to the mediator or, preferably, please download them, complete them and email them to the mediator, since we try to reduce the paper we use as much as possible.
This will better prepare you and the mediator for the meeting.
Before this meeting you may also want to use the online legal aid calculator to check whether you are likely to be eligible for legal aid for this meeting and mediation and perhaps ask the mediator to give you an indication over the phone, if possible.
If you think that you may be eligible for legal aid please bring the documents referred to in the legal aid document checklist. If you do not do so the mediator will not be able to assess you for legal aid and you will have to pay for the meeting, at the end of the meeting. If this is an online MIAM ask the mediator which financial documents they will need to see to assess whether you are eligible for Legal Aid before your meeting with them.