Key legal question
Whether the request for legal aid was admissible although no appeal proceedings were pending before the court
Extracted holding
The request was filed prematurely because no recourse proceedings were open before the court, so it was inadmissible.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 18 LPA-VD, judicial legal aid is granted for proceedings pending before the court; administrative authorities decide legal aid for proceedings before them. Since no appeal had yet been filed, the court lacked a pending case to which legal aid could attach.