Key legal question
Whether party compensation for official counsel in the cantonal appeal had to be requested in advance
Extracted holding
No. The entitlement derived from Article 29(3) BV could not be made conditional on a prior application in this context.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the compensation claim stems from a public-law mandate and is federally protected; denying it solely because the request was filed only after the decision unlawfully reduced the counsel's remuneration.