4.  The applicant was born in 1941 and lives in Sosnowiec. 5.  By a judgment of 8 August 2006 the Kraków Regional Administrative Court dismissed the applicant’s appeal against a second-instance administrative decision of 25 August 2005 by which the second-instance authority had refused to acknowledge that the applicant’s ailment was of an occupational character. 6.  This judgment was served on the applicant on 25 September 2006. 7.  By a decision of 19 October 2006 the court granted legal aid to the applicant. 8.  The local Bar Association assigned a lawyer to the case by a decision of 2 November 2006. This decision was served on the lawyer on 8 November 2006. On 13 November 2006 the applicant gave a power of attorney to the lawyer. 9.  On 1 December 2006 the lawyer submitted a cassation appeal to the Regional Administrative Court. 10.  On 29 December 2006 that court held that the time-limit for lodging a cassation appeal had expired on 25 October 2006, thirty days after the applicant had been served with the judgment. The court rejected the cassation appeal on the ground that under the applicable laws the fact that the party was not represented by a lawyer and requested for legal aid only after having been served with the judgment had no bearing on the running of the time-limit for submitting a cassation appeal. It also noted that the legal-aid lawyer had failed to submit a request for leave to appeal out of time together with the cassation appeal. 11.  The applicant’s lawyer appealed. He acknowledged that he had not submitted the request for leave to appeal out of time. However, he was of the view that this omission would not be relevant for the court’s decision to accept the cassation appeal for examination. 12.  On 13 April 2007 the Supreme Administrative Court upheld the contested decision and shared the legal view expressed by the first-instance court.