Question juridique clé
Whether the federal appeal was admissible as a civil law appeal or only as a subsidiary constitutional complaint
Solution extraite
The matter was a monetary dispute limited to counsel fees, so the civil-law appeal was unavailable because the CHF 30,000 threshold was not reached; the filing was treated as a subsidiary constitutional complaint.
Motifs extraits
When only legal fees are contested, the amount in dispute is the fee itself. Since the threshold for a civil-law appeal was not met, only subsidiary constitutional review remained open.