Question juridique clé
Whether the appeal was admissible despite the value in dispute being below CHF 15,000 because a question of principle was raised.
Solution extraite
No; the dispute did not raise a sufficiently pressing and general question of principle, so the statutory value threshold could not be waived.
Motifs extraits
The alleged issues concerned only a narrow transitional category of assistant-doctorants whose situation was exceptional and short-lived, making future review unlikely. The case turned more on the concrete material scope than on a general competence question.