Key legal question
Whether the cantonal insurance court could decide the complaint by a single judge despite an indeterminable dispute value.
Extracted holding
No. Where the dispute value cannot be determined, the case had to be heard in three-judge composition; the single judge was functionally incompetent.
Extracted reasoning
Cantonal law assigned single-judge jurisdiction only up to a dispute value of CHF 20,000. If the dispute value is not determinable, the default rule is collegial decision. The challenged case concerned alleged denial of justice and legal aid in relation to administrative instructions, so the dispute value was not determinable.