Key legal question
Whether the appellant's right to be heard was violated because the appeal court did not transmit the respondent's submissions of 23 May and 14 August 2013.
Extracted holding
Yes. The 23 May 2013 submission had to be communicated to the appellant before judgment; the 14 August 2013 submission reached the court only after judgment and could not affect the hearing right.
Extracted reasoning
The right of reply requires the court to transmit every filing to the other party so it can decide whether to comment, regardless of whether the filing appears decisive or whether previous written exchanges already occurred.