Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court violated the right to be heard and Article 6 ECHR by deciding without a public hearing and by refusing two witness hearings.
Extracted holding
No violation: no clear request for a public hearing was shown, and the prior oral and written submissions made a further hearing unnecessary; witness evidence could be refused after anticipatory assessment.
Extracted reasoning
The parties had already been heard by the civil registrar and submitted written statements twice. The court could, without arbitrariness, conclude that additional testimony would not change its conviction.