Key legal question
Whether the fee award for court-appointed counsel was arbitrarily low under cantonal law and constitutional standards
Extracted holding
The cantonal court acted arbitrarily by limiting compensable work to 34 hours and by ignoring the high value of the case, the result achieved, and the extrajudicial settlement efforts required by the matter.
Extracted reasoning
The authority relied almost exclusively on hours worked, without adequately considering the litigation value, responsibility, success obtained, and necessary settlement negotiations. It also substituted its own estimate for the counsel's itemized statement without explaining why it was unreliable.