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Secondly, they must pass a "merits" test by demonstrating that their case is serious.
There is already in place a mechanism operated by the Legal Services Commission (LSC) called the merits test, to determine whether a case is too trivial to pursue by a grant of legal aid, and of course there is the judge, who can dismiss a case deemed too trivial.
This means that although she meets the "merits" test for legal aid (as someone who says she is a victim of domestic abuse and has sought safety in a refuge), she can't prove that she has no funds and so fails the "means" test.
A merits test should assess, for example, the complexity of the case or the seriousness of the offence.
MEPs added provisions to ensure that a person's economic situation is properly assessed ("means test"), as well as the situations when legal aid is required in the interests of justice ("merits test").
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"Legal aid remains available to help families prepare for an inquest and pay for representation, subject to means and merits tests".
However, it is a necessary feature of means and merits testing that legal aid cannot be made available until information has been provided which shows that the statutory tests have been met".
Our metabolomics analysis results suggest that nutritional therapy through rice bran's multi-faceted antimicrobial actions merits testing in medical clinical applications to mitigate microbial resistance.
The suggestion that higher metformin dose was associated with increased risk of CRPC, metastases and PC-specific mortality merits testing in large prospective studies with longer follow-up.
This idea merits testing.
Capecitabine metronomic chemotherapy is a novel scheme that merits testing.
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