Legal Services Commissioner v Fawcett - [2025] 2 NZLR 613

Legal aid services — Definition of legal services — Interpretation — Whether includes administration of legal aid grants — Whether includes preparation and submission of invoices — Whether includes correspondence with the Legal Services Commissioner — Appropriate use of declaration — Definition of incidental — Steps preliminary or incidental to a proceeding — Criminal High Cost Cases legal aid regime — High Court Rules 2016 rr 20.19(1) and 20.19(3).