Key legal question
Whether the appellant was entitled to a second round of written observations before the cantonal court closed pleadings.
Extracted holding
Any defect was cured on federal appeal; no remittal was required because the appellant did not show what decisive points she would have raised and the Federal Court could review the legal questions freely.
Extracted reasoning
The right to reply may be derived from the ECHR and the Constitution, but in this case a remittal would only cause a formalistic delay, while the issue could be fully examined by the Federal Court.