Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court correctly denied free legal aid on the ground that the appeal was hopeless.
Extracted holding
The refusal was unjustified because the cantonal appeal was not clearly doomed to fail.
Extracted reasoning
Legal aid under Art. 61 lit. f LPGA requires indigence and non-frivolous claims. Even though the claimant lost the merits appeal, the cantonal appeal against the AI decision was not from the outset devoid of prospects.