Whether the appellant qualifies for legal aid to be exempted from the court-cost advance
Legal aid is denied because the appeal lacked sufficient prospects of success.
Under Art. 18 LPA-VD, legal aid requires both indigence and non-frivolous claims. Based on the medical record and the AI expert report, the court found no convincing basis to assume incapacity for light adapted work, so a pension claim above the invalidity threshold was not sufficiently plausible.