Questão jurídica principal
Whether the liability action was hopeless for purposes of legal aid
Decisão extraída
The claim was not clearly hopeless; unresolved questions about the guardian's authority and the cantonal social welfare reimbursement claim required fuller examination.
Fundamentação extraída
The lower court went too far into the merits at the legal-aid stage. Given open questions, the chances of success were not substantially lower than the risks.