Question juridique clé
Whether the applicant was entitled to legal aid for the debt-liberation and payment proceedings.
Solution extraite
No. The case lacked reasonable prospects of success, so legal aid had to be refused.
Motifs extraits
The Federal Court held that the applicant had signed the bank's letter of 12 December 2008, thereby acknowledging the due and payable character of the two mortgage debts. On the documents available, the debt-defence action was not sufficiently promising.