Key legal question
Whether the refusal of legal aid for the cantonal appeal violated Art. 29(3) BV because the appeal was allegedly not hopeless.
Extracted holding
No violation was shown; even in a system of initially unreasoned appeal declarations, the applicant must summarily explain why the appeal is not hopeless.
Extracted reasoning
The applicant merely referred generally to the pleadings and files. The Federal Court held that this was insufficient to demonstrate a constitutional breach, and that she failed to show any legal error in the first-instance judgment or the relevance of the requested witness evidence.