Legal Services Agency v Sylva - [2009] 1 NZLR 279

Legal aid — Discretionary grants — Legal Services Agency declined application for travel costs — Whether grounds for declining lawful — Agency’s policies and guidelines relating to grant of travel expenses — Whether adequate provision for departure from guidelines and exercise of real discretion by grants officers — Significance of phrases “exceptional circumstances” and “special circumstances” — Whether Agency’s decision “manifestly unreasonable” — Employment Relations Act, s 114.