Key legal question
Whether the refusal of cantonal legal aid in the social insurance appeal was lawful.
Extracted holding
Legal aid could be refused because the appeal lacked sufficient prospects of success and the case was not particularly difficult.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 61 let. f LPGA, legal aid requires indigence, necessity of counsel, and non-frivolous claims. The cantonal court could find the appeal hopeless, especially since the appellant lacked a protected current interest in attacking the child-pension decision.