Question juridique clé
Whether the claimed lawyer participation and related invoices in the prior proceedings could be considered to justify a party compensation award
Solution extraite
The alleged lawyer involvement was not shown in the record of the prior federal administrative proceedings; the new invoices and assertions were inadmissible novelties and could not be considered.
Motifs extraits
The appellants failed to demonstrate from the file that counsel had acted in the relevant appeal proceedings. The evidence first produced before the Federal Supreme Court was new and not admissible under Art. 99(1) BGG, because they should already have raised those costs earlier.