The Weekly Law Reports
[2021] 1 WLR 1483
Queen’s Bench Division
*Regina (GR)
v
Director of Legal Aid Casework
[2020] EWHC 3140 (Admin)
2020 June 9;
Nov 24
Nov 24
Pepperall J
Legal aid— Availability— Civil proceedings— Director of Legal Aid Casework refusing claimant’s application for legal aid on ground disposable capital above statutory threshold— Claimant having joint interest in home but unable to sell or borrow against home to fund legal proceedings— Whether value of claimant’s interest to be taken to be hypothetical sale value— Whether director having discretion to value interest in land at nil—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 3(1), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 6, 8[1]
—
Civil Legal Aid (Financial Resources and Payment for Services) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/480), regs 31(b), 37[1]
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