Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court violated the right to be heard by applying a contractual-penalty reduction without prior interpellation of the parties.
Extracted holding
No. The reduction under Art. 163(3) CO was foreseeable after the Federal Tribunal's remittal, and the parties had an opportunity to be heard.
Extracted reasoning
The remanding judgment expressly instructed the cantonal court to examine the clause under Art. 162 CO and Art. 163(3) CO. The appellant therefore could not claim surprise; it also chose oral submissions instead of written ones.