Key legal question
Whether the appeal against the Department's interim order on legal aid was admissible as an immediately appealable decision.
Extracted holding
The order was an interlocutory decision, but the appellant failed to show a non-remediable legal prejudice or that the decision was preclusive; the appeal was therefore not directly admissible.
Extracted reasoning
Under the cantonal rule on interlocutory decisions, direct appeal requires a prejudicial effect equivalent to a final decision. Here no cost advance was required in the social-welfare appeal, so the refusal of legal aid did not block access to the merits. Counsel had already filed the necessary submissions, and no concrete irreparable legal disadvantage was demonstrated.