Key legal question
Whether the refusal of legal aid in the cantonal appeal proceedings was justified because the appeal lacked prospects of success.
Extracted holding
The refusal was upheld; the appellant did not show that the appeal had serious prospects of success.
Extracted reasoning
Legal aid under Art. 117 CPC requires indigence and non-frivolous claims. The appellant corrected one factual point about interest, but did not explain why an additional award beyond the equitable amount already granted would likely succeed. The new claim for pension-loss damages was also an inadmissible new conclusion and lacked factual basis.