The WLR Daily case summaries
[2019] WLR(D) 339
Queen’s Bench Division
Regina (Liberty) v Director of Legal Aid Casework
[2019] EWHC 1532 (Admin)
2019 March 20; June 17
Murray J
Legal aid— Availability— Civil legal services— Individual bringing statutory challenge to public spaces protection order made by local authority— Legal aid refused— Whether legal services to support challenge “civil legal services” eligible for legal aid— Whether proceedings having potential to produce “benefit” for individual—
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c 10), Sch 1, Pt 1, para 19(3)
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Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c 12), s 66