Key legal question
Whether post-judgment recusal and annulment requests had to be treated as revision requests or as cantonal appeals.
Extracted holding
Because the filings were made after the reasoned judgments had been served, the trial court could no longer deal with the recusal request in the same enforcement proceedings; the appellate court correctly qualified the submissions as appeals under the CPC.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 51(3) CPC refers to revision when the ground is discovered after closure of the proceedings, but the Court held that when the challenge is raised during the still-open appellate period, the appeal route prevails. A new irregularity discovered only upon service of the judgment may be raised by appeal, and forcing prior revision would create an incoherent system.