Key legal question
Whether the cantonal social insurance court violated Article 6 ECHR by deciding without a requested public hearing
Extracted holding
Yes. The request was timely and clear, and none of the recognized exceptions justified dispensing with a public hearing.
Extracted reasoning
The dispute was not merely highly technical, the case was not manifestly unfounded or inadmissible, and no other reason outweighed the Convention-based right to an oral public hearing.