Facts
The appellant [A.] filed an appeal with the Federal Court against the decision of the High Court of the Canton of Aargau dated 22 April 2014, by which the High Court had removed the appeal proceedings against the decision of the Labour Court of Baden dated 22 April 2013 as settled.On 14 October 2013, the appellant had filed an unsigned appeal brief with the High Court. By order dated 23 October 2013, the instructing judge set the appellant a deadline of 10 days to submit two handwritten signed copies of the appeal brief, failing which the submission would be deemed not to have been made. The improved appeal brief was received by the High Court on 14 November 2013, thereby missing the deadline. Thereupon, the High Court removed the appeal proceedings as settled.
Considerations
The Federal Court dismissed the appeal. It stated that the service of the court documents on the appellant domiciled in France by the French post office was permissible in accordance with Art. 10(a) of the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (HZÜ65), as France has not made any reservation against this form of service. The appellant's objection that the submission of the improved appeal…