Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the filing labeled as an appeal against a standalone cost decision was admissible or could be converted into a complaint.
Decisione estratta
A standalone cost decision under Art. 110 CPC is challengeable only by complaint. Because the filing showed no clear intent to file a complaint and no exceptional grounds justified conversion, the court would not convert it and did not enter into the appeal.
Motivazione estratta
The law expressly makes the cost decision independently appealable only by complaint. The appellant’s lawyer should have known this, especially given the correct appeal instruction in the judgment; conversion is to be applied very restrictively and was not justified here.