Key legal question
Whether the refusal of legal aid due to missing financial documents amounted to excessive formalism and a violation of Article 29 BV.
Extracted holding
Yes. Given the medical and procedural circumstances, indigence was obvious; insisting on documents and a certificate was excessively formalistic.
Extracted reasoning
The record showed serious mental illness, repeated hospitalizations, and continuous hospitalization. In such circumstances, the need for legal aid was sufficiently apparent, so strict insistence on additional proof lacked justification.