Key legal question
Whether the late appeal to the Zurich universities appeals commission should have been restored as a missed deadline
Extracted holding
The deadline was not restored because the appellant's mistake about a supposed summer recess for that appeal was attributable to gross negligence, and no constitutional right was violated.
Extracted reasoning
The university's appeal instruction correctly stated a 30-day period. The summer recess under the ZPO applied only to appeals to the Administrative Court, not to this internal university appeal. The appellant's reliance on an unsupported assumption was self-inflicted and careless.