Questão jurídica principal
Whether legal aid can be granted for claims assigned from a controlled company to its chairman.
Decisão extraída
No. An assignment that merely transfers the company’s claims to the applicant himself circumvents the conditions for legal aid and is disregarded.
Fundamentação extraída
Legal aid under the relevant practice is available only to natural persons, not legal entities or bankruptcy estates. Since S.-A. AG is a legal entity, it would not qualify. The alleged assignment to the applicant, who controls the company, is an impermissible evasion of the legal-aid requirements.