Carol Storer and Tom Royston Published: 14th August 2014 Exceptional funding will only be available to people whose human rights or European Union rights would be breached if they did not have legal aid. The Government intends this to be a high threshold and envisages that only a small number of cases will get exceptional funding. This paper and workshop notes examines when your case may be eligible for exceptional funding , and what you need to show to obtain it. Exceptional cases Workshop notes