Question juridique clé
Whether the dispute over the file-inspection fee was to be treated as a criminal-law matter or as a public-law matter.
Solution extraite
The dispute concerned only the amount of the fee for access to files and was therefore a public-law dispute, not a criminal-law dispute.
Motifs extraits
The applicant was not a party to the criminal proceedings; only the fee amount was contested, without any criminal-law assessment of success or failure in the main proceedings.