Key legal question
Whether the public-law appeal and subsidiary constitutional appeal were admissible against the cantonal disciplinary council decision
Extracted holding
No; the challenged body was not a higher cantonal court within the meaning of Art. 86(2) LTF, so both remedies were inadmissible.
Extracted reasoning
The council was only a last-instance tribunal for some of its competences, while other matters could be appealed to the Chamber for Advocacy and Notariat and then to the Commission of Judicial Appeals. Therefore it lacked the requisite comprehensive superior-court character.