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Why is this important?
A to Z index - L
Labelling
Laid off
- Lay offs when employer has no work for employees
- Redundancy - claiming redundancy after continued period of lay offs
- Working for another employer while laid off from your usual job
Landlords
- Accreditation schemes
- Anti-social behaviour in housing
- Deposits and premiums
- Disabled tenants - landlord's duty to make alterations
- Discrimination against tenants
- Ending a tenancy
- Guidance for landlords
- Houses in multiple occupation
- Landlords' associations
- Private sector tenancies
- Problems with tenancies
- Reasonable adjustments for disabled tenants
- Responsibility for repairs
- Rights and obligations
- Tenancy agreements
Law Centres
Lawyers
- See: Solicitors
Learning difficulties
- Consumer contracts - who can make and cancel a contract
- Hate crime - hate incidents or hate crime because you have a learning disability
- Scams - stopping vulnerable people from being scammed
Learning disabilities
- See: Disability
Leaseholders
Lease options contracts
Leasing
Leave
- See: Time off work
Legal advice
- Deaf people - legal services
- Debt - legal advice for people on a low income - Civil Legal Advice helpline
- Employment - help to deal with problems at work
- Frequently asked questions about legal matters
- Frequently asked questions - police advice database
- Help with legal costs
- Police - legal advice at a police station after arrest or questioning
Legal aid
- See: Legal costs
Legal costs
- Capital - effect on eligibility for legal aid
- Deaf people - legal services
- Help with legal costs
- Legal expenses insurance
- Solicitors' costs and bills
- Statutory charge - payment towards cost of Legal Help
Legal expenses
- See: Legal costs
Legal Help
Legal Ombudsman
Legal Representation
Legal Services Ombudsman
Lesbians
- Civil partnership for same-sex couples
- Cohabitation and civil partnerships - legal differences
- Discrimination because of sexual orientation
- Domestic violence - help for people experiencing physical or emotional abuse in a relationship
- Ending a civil partnership
- Hate incidents and hate crime
- Workplace - discrimination
- Young people
Letter before action
- Consumer problems - writing to the trader before taking them to court
- Faulty goods - letter to trader before taking court action
- Illegal filesharing - you are accused of copyright infringement - what to do
Letters of administration
Letting agencies
Liability order
Licences
- Activities which need licences
- Air Travel Organiser's Licensing Scheme (ATOL)
- Driving licences
- Television licences
Life assurance
- Insurance claim is refused because you didn't give relevant information (material facts)
- See also: Insurance
Liquidation
- Airline failure - financial protection
- Finding out if a trader has stopped trading
- Holidays - liquidation of organiser/trader/travel agent
- Limited company has gone into administration, receivership or liquidation - your options
- Package holiday company goes out of business - financial protection
- Trader has gone into administration or liquidation - template letter
Literacy
- See: Adult education
Litter
Living together
- Ending a relationship when living together
- Legal differences - living together and civil partnerships
- Legal differences - living together and marriage
- Opposite-sex couples
- Same-sex couples
Loan sharks
Loans
- Credit union loans
- Doorstep loans
- Early repayment
- Home credit
- Loan sharks
- Pawnbroker loans
- Pawnbrokers
- Payday loans
- Payday loans
- Personal loans
- Professional and Career Development Loans
- Secured loans
- Social fund - types of loan
- Student loans and the Student Loan Company
- Student loans - Student finance Wales
- Types of loans/credit
- See also: Credit
Local authorities
- Homeless people - local authority responsibilities
- Public Services Ombudsman for Wales - complaints about local authorities
Local housing allowance
Lodgers
- See: Boarders
Lofts
Logbook loans
Lone parents
- Benefits for children
- Government employment schemes
- Income support
- In-work emergency discretion fund - financial help for parents when starting work
Lorries
- See: Vehicles
Loss assessors
Lost property
- Abroad - lost or stolen property
- Air travel - lost luggage
- Air travel - luggage is lost during the flight - compensation
- Cabin baggage is lost during the flight - compensation
- Goods left with a trader are lost
- Luggage - making a claim on your travel insurance
- Your belongings are lost while having a service done
Lotteries
Luggage
- Air travel - lost or delayed luggage
- Air travel - luggage is lost or damaged during the flight - compensation
- Cabin baggage - compensation for baggage lost or damaged in flight
- Limited Release Tags - luggage is lost or damaged during the flight - compensation
- Lost or stolen luggage - making a claim on your travel insurance