Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the cantonal court violated Article 6(1) ECHR by refusing the requested public hearing.
Extrahierter Entscheid
Yes. The request was timely and clear; the case was not highly technical, and no exception justified dispensing with an oral public hearing.
Extrahierte Begründung
In social insurance cases, a first-instance court must in principle hold a public hearing when requested. None of the accepted exceptions applied here: the complaint was neither abusive nor obviously inadmissible/unfounded, and causation disputes in accident insurance are not 'highly technical' in the relevant sense.