Questão jurídica principal
Whether the cantonal party-compensation award of CHF 8,000 was arbitrary or otherwise unlawful
Decisão extraída
The compensation was set too low and had to be recalculated; the cantonal court had relied on untenable reasons and misapplied the cantonal fee rules.
Fundamentação extraída
The new counsel's work was not inflated by the predecessor's death, since only post-29 May 2008 work was billed. The challenged submissions were not unnecessary, because factual work was needed to address the key issue of subordination under the GAV FAR. Given the complexity of the case, a reduction of about 80% was unsustainable and the court was not bound by the fee ceiling in the way it assumed.