Key legal question
Whether the civil law appeal was admissible despite the low amount in dispute and absence of a fundamental legal question
Extracted holding
The civil law appeal was inadmissible because the amount in dispute did not reach the statutory minimum and no fundamental legal question was sufficiently shown.
Extracted reasoning
The dispute before the Federal Court concerned only the challenged party-cost award, not the original CHF 240,982.05 claim. The appellant did not convincingly show a question of general and urgent importance, and the transitional-law argument under Art. 404 ZPO was not enough.