Section 11
Free legal aid certificate
Where application is made under section 10, the judge or the
Director General of Legal Aid may refer the application to the Director of Social Welfare for a report on the means of the applicant.
(2)
If the judge or the Director General of Legal Aid is of opinion on the facts brought before him including any report by the Director of
Social Welfare that the person making the application is without adequate means to obtain legal aid and that it is desirable in the interests of justice that such legal aid should be supplied, he shall certify to that effect and the Director General of Legal Aid may thereupon cause arrangements to be made for the defence of that person and payment of the expenses of all material witnesses or for the preparation and conduct of the appeal or for resisting the appeal, as the case may be.
(3)
Any doubt whether an applicant’s means are sufficient to enable him to obtain legal aid or whether it is desirable in the interests of justice that he should have free legal aid shall be resolved in favour of the applicant.