Emma Marshall Published: 1st October 2020 This briefing provides an update to Public Law Project’s earlier report, Improving Exceptional Case Funding: Providers’ Perspectives, which was published in January 2020 just before the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the changing landscape of legal advice and how professionals are able to provide assistance to their clients under the continuing effects of the pandemic, Public Law Project carried out a survey in June-July 2020 to update its previous findings. Our key findings are: 60% of legal aid providers state that the pandemic has had a direct impact on their capacity or ability to make ECF applications. 80% of legal aid providers were unaware of the steps that the Legal Aid Agency implemented to ensure the accessibility of the ECF scheme in response to the pandemic Nearly three quarters of legal aid providers (73%) thought that more should be done to improve the accessibility of the ECF scheme during the pandemic. Read our full briefing below. Improving Exceptional Case Funding: Responding to COVID-19