Questão jurídica principal
Whether the appellant was entitled to legal aid for the cantonal appeal proceedings
Decisão extraída
No. The appeal was deemed hopeless, and the appellant had not sufficiently shown indigence at the relevant time.
Fundamentação extraída
Under Art. 117 ZPO and Art. 29 Abs. 3 BV, legal aid requires indigence and non-hopeless prospects. The Federal Supreme Court upheld the view that the challenge to the expert report and causation findings offered no realistic chance of success.