Key legal question
Whether an appeal may be declared inadmissible for non-payment of the advance of costs while a timely legal-aid request is pending or granted retroactively.
Extracted holding
No. A legal-aid request filed before expiry of the payment deadline suspends the advance-of-costs order; if legal aid is granted, the appeal cannot be rejected for non-payment.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 101 and 119 CPC, the court must wait for the legal-aid decision. The appellant had been granted legal aid effective from 14 June 2012, indicating a timely request. The appellate court could not require a separate notification from the party, and its non-entry decision was contrary to Art. 119 CPC.