Darvell v Auckland District Legal Services Subcommittee - [1993] 1 NZLR 111

Administrative law — Tribunals and boards — District Legal Services Subcommittee — Legal aid — Initial grant of legal aid for counsel's fees — Subsequent reduction because of third party supplement to grant — Validity of subcommittee's refusal to permit such supplement — Whether subcommittee required to hear affected party before making a reduction — Whether subcommittee's decision outside policy and objects of Legal Services Act 1991 - Observation as to obligations of counsel to assist impecunious defendants — Legal Services Act 1991, s 11(3).