Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the cantonal court arbitrarily upheld compensation for 83 hours instead of the claimed 133/145.25 hours for court-appointed counsel
Extrahierter Entscheid
The complaint failed: the cantonal court could rely on the case's ordinary complexity and the excessive contact and correspondence reflected in the fee note to uphold the reduction to 83 hours.
Extrahierte Begründung
The Federal Court held that the cantonal court was not bound by the parties' main-proceeding cost allocation when fixing appointed counsel's fee. It was also not arbitrary to apply general fee-fixing principles and to treat the claimed hours as excessive, especially given the extensive client contact and the lack of a convincing explanation for the large gap to opposing counsel's time account.