3 Jun 1999
NGUYEN TRONG SON v. DIRECTOR OF LEGAL AID
- Citation
- NGUYEN TRONG SON v. DIRECTOR OF LEGAL AID
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCAA20/1999
The court held that the appeal was properly constituted despite unsigned forms because the solicitors acted as duly authorised agents; the Director of Legal Aid is entitled and obliged to assess the strength or weakness of the applicant's case when deciding legal aid. However, where the Director places documents before the court bearing on that assessment, procedural fairness requires that relevant documents be disclosed to the appellant's solicitors (subject to data protection analysis). Applying Van Can On, the judge directed that copies of the documents in the Legal Aid Department file rel…