R (Southwark Law Centre) v Legal Services Commission [2007] EWHC 1715 (Admin), [2007] All ER (D) 325 (Jul)
Under reg 24 of the Community Legal Service (Financial) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000/516), where a calculation of disposable income is being carried out for the purposes of assessing a person’s entitlement to publicly funded legal representation, the net rent payable by that person has to be taken into account, rather than the net rent actually paid.