Key legal question
Whether the accused was entitled to challenge the reduction of fee advances for official defence counsel
Extracted holding
The accused generally lacks a legally protected interest in challenging the amount of the official defence fee, though the court left the standing question open because the complaint was inadmissible for other reasons.
Extracted reasoning
The official defender, not the accused, is usually the proper person to complain about an allegedly insufficient fee. The accused does not normally have to pay the defender himself.