Key legal question
Whether the missed deadline for payment of the court advance should be restored under Art. 50 BGG.
Extracted holding
No. The applicant had already let the deadline lapse without timely requesting an extension or presenting a complete legal-aid request, and the circumstances relied on were not an unforeseeable, faultless hindrance.
Extracted reasoning
Restoration requires that the party was prevented from acting without fault and that the request is filed within 30 days after the hindrance ceases, together with the omitted act. Here, the financial difficulty existed before expiry and should have been raised by requesting an extension under Art. 47(2) BGG; the applicant did not use available procedural remedies with due diligence.