Kernrechtsfrage
Whether party compensation may be reduced or denied because legal representation was allegedly unnecessary in first-instance legal-opening proceedings.
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. The court held that the compensation for a winning party's lawyer cannot be made dependent on reviewing whether retaining counsel was necessary in the first place; compensation must be assessed under the cantonal tariff.
Extrahierte Begründung
Citing Federal Supreme Court precedent, the court found the first instance erred by replacing tariff-based compensation with a flat 'umtriebsentschädigung' and by denying the requested fee on the ground that counsel was unnecessary.