Non-entry on appeal due to lack of handwritten signature

Facts

The appellant [A.] filed an appeal against the non-consideration decision of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Canton of Schaffhausen dated 28 December 2020. The High Court of the Canton of Schaffhausen did not enter the appeal on 9 February 2021, as the appellant had not submitted the appeal brief with a handwritten signature within the time limit. The appellant appealed to the FSCA against this non-entry decision of the High Court.

Considerations

The FSCA did not enter the appeal, as the legal document submitted to the FSCA was merely a copy without a handwritten signature. The appellant was requested to remedy the formal defect of the missing handwritten signature, but did not comply with this request. Therefore, the appeal was not to be entered as announced.

Furthermore, the appeal would also not have been entered due to lack of adequate reasoning. The appellant did not sufficiently address the non-entry decision of the High Court and in particular did not claim not to have received or understood the request to remedy the defect. Instead, she merely put forward the…