Questão jurídica principal
Whether the subsidiary constitutional complaint was admissible despite representation by a fiduciary office rather than a lawyer and despite the low value in dispute.
Decisão extraída
The complaint was not admissible: in civil matters the lawyer monopoly also applies to subsidiary constitutional complaints, and the value threshold for an ordinary civil appeal was not met.
Fundamentação extraída
The Court held that subsidiary constitutional complaints replace the ordinary civil appeal where its conditions are lacking, so they are also a civil-law remedy for purposes of Art. 40 BGG. Since no lawyer represented the appellant, the defect could not be cured because the submission also failed to meet the reasoning requirements for a subsidiary constitutional complaint.