Question juridique clé
Whether Judge Hans-Jacob Heitz had to recuse himself in the Federal Administrative Court proceedings connected to the EBK liquidation case.
Solution extraite
Yes. The recusal request was well founded because the present proceedings concerned the same subject matter and temporal context as the cases previously decided in the parallel judgment.
Motifs extraits
The Court referred to its parallel judgment of 19 October 2007 and held that the same reasons applied. Since the Federal Administrative Court proceedings involved only issues falling within that direct substantive and temporal connection, recusal was required.