Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 07/26/2017

Subject: The Court affirmed that Directive 2003/8/EC to improve access to justice in cross-border disputes by establishing minimum common rules relating to legal aid for such disputes must be interpreted as meaning that legal aid granted by the Member State of the court hearing the particular case, in which a natural person domiciled or resident in another Member State has submitted a legal aid application in the context of a cross-border dispute, also covers the costs paid by that person for the translation of the supporting documents necessary for the processing of that application

Parties: Šalplachta

Classification: Justice - Art. 47 Justice: remedy - Legal aid

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