Key legal question
Whether the request to tax attorney fees after payment was inadmissible as untimely under cantonal practice
Extracted holding
The commission could not declare the request late merely because it was filed years after payment; the one-year time limit used by the commission was applied arbitrarily.
Extracted reasoning
The cantonal law did not set a deadline for filing a taxation request. The court held that there was no defensible reason to treat paid fee notes differently from merely acknowledged ones, and that interest in taxation persists as long as a civil repetition claim may still exist.