Kaiser Odermatt und Partner AG – represented by Alexander Kyburz – successfully defended a client before the High Court of the Canton of Zurich because the competent district court wanted to allow the assertion of a justified debt collection claim to fail due to alleged formal deficiencies. The district court did not accept the application to open proceedings. It stated that the continuation of the debt enforcement proceedings without legal proceedings for the opening of legal proceedings at the debt enforcement office was to be initiated with the certificate of loss that had been filed. Accordingly, there was no interest in legal protection, which is why the application to open legal proceedings should not be granted. The High Court rightly stated that although every attachment certificate of loss from a debt enforcement initiated by an order for payment allows the creditor to continue the debt enforcement without a new order for payment, this does not apply if a certificate of loss originates from a debt enforcement that has already been continued in accordance with Art. 149 para. 3 SchKG. If a renewed attachment, based on a request in accordance with Art. 149 para. 3 SchKG, again leads to a certificate of loss, this second certificate of loss no longer entitles the debtor to request continuation without an order for payment and legal proceedings must be initiated if the debtor makes a legal proposal. The decision not to intervene therefore unlawfully stifled the legitimate interests of the customer by means of a “short process”.