Questão jurídica principal
Whether the cantonal court violated the right to be heard by refusing to examine the alleged novation of the 21 October 1999 agreement.
Decisão extraída
No. In summary lifting proceedings, the court was not required to determine the validity and liberating scope of that agreement, and it gave sufficient reasons for declining to enter into the novation argument.
Fundamentação extraída
The judge of provisional lifting has a limited summary review and cannot assess the parties' true contractual intent in such a complex dispute, especially where one contracting party was not a party to the proceeding.