Index card R (HJK) v Director of Legal Aid Casework

R (HJK) v Director of Legal Aid Casework

Hearings

England & Wales

01 Apr 2025 [2025] EWHC 774 (Admin); [2025] 1 WLR 3740; [2025] WLR(D) 181, KBD (Calver J)

Subject Matter

LEGAL AID — Availability — Civil legal aid — Claimants applying for exceptional case funding for purpose of obtaining legal advice and assistance in seeking compensation as victims of human trafficking — Whether refusal to grant exceptional case funding breaching claimants’ Convention rights — Whether right not to be held in slavery or servitude engaged — Whether right to respect for private and family life engaged — Whether right to fair trial breached — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 4, 6, 8 — Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c 10), s 10(3)(a)

[2025] EWHC 774 (Admin); [2025] 1 WLR 3740; [2025] WLR(D) 181, KBD

Commentary

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