Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the refusal of legal aid for the proceedings before the district prosecutor violated the constitutional right to legal aid and the ban on excessive formalism.
Extrahierter Entscheid
Yes. Because the complainant was indigent and his claim was not hopeless, denying legal aid solely because no peace-judge conciliation hearing took place was excessively formalistic and contrary to Article 29 BV.
Extrahierte Begründung
The authorities did not assess the substantive conditions for legal aid. The settlement made the conciliation hearing unnecessary, but that did not justify depriving the entitled party of legal aid for costs already incurred in proceedings that had been initiated and later discontinued as moot.