Courts are not allowed to refuse a request for legal aid simply because of a lack of signature on the form about the personal and economic circumstances and then leave it unprocessed. For at least in the quality date a court must indicate the missing signature so that the applicant can catch up with it, the Landesarbeitsgericht (LAG) Hamm decided in a recently published decision of 29 June 2026 (Az. 13 Ta 146/26). Background to the dispute was t…
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Courts are not allowed to refuse a request for legal aid simply because of a lack of signature on the form about the personal and economic circumstances and then leave it unprocessed. For at least in the quality date a court must indicate the missing signature so that the applicant can catch up with it, the Landesarbeitsgericht (LAG) Hamm decided in a recently published decision of 29 June 2026 (Az. 13 Ta 146/26). Background to the dispute was t…