The applicant, facing serious criminal charges, brought a Rowbotham application seeking state-funded counsel after being denied Legal Aid.
Legal Aid was denied because the applicant provided misleading financial information, including a claim that he earned $10,000 per week.
The court dismissed the application, finding that the applicant failed to provide credible evidence of his indigence and could not rely on a Legal Aid refusal that he caused through his own misleading conduct.
The dismissal was without prejudice to bringing a more fulsome application.
