Key legal question
Whether the reduction of counsel's claimed expenses and time was arbitrary or insufficiently reasoned
Extracted holding
The court found a formal denial of justice regarding the unaddressed travel-expense item, but otherwise upheld the cantonal assessment as not arbitrary.
Extracted reasoning
The appellate court had to justify reductions of clearly claimed items. Its failure to explain the rejection of the claimed travel expenses for the hearings violated the duty to reason. However, most other reductions fell within the broad cantonal discretion in assessing court-appointed counsel's work and were not arbitrary in result.