Key legal question
Whether the single judge of the Zurich Social Insurance Court was competent to decide the complaint over refusal of free legal representation in pre-notice proceedings.
Extracted holding
The single-judge composition was not arbitrary; the dispute could be treated as a value-based case under the cantonal rule.
Extracted reasoning
The matter concerned only who had to pay counsel's fee, not access to representation itself. Given the modest amount at stake and the court-organization rule, treating the case as one with determinable value was defensible.