Key legal question
Whether the civil appeal was admissible despite the amount in dispute being below CHF 30,000 because a question of fundamental importance was raised under Article 74 BGG.
Extracted holding
No fundamental legal question was shown; the appeal was therefore not admissible on that ground.
Extracted reasoning
The Court held that the mandatory nature of Article 404 OR had already been settled in constant case law. Despite academic criticism, there was no need to revisit that jurisprudence and no uniform doctrinal position requiring clarification.