Question juridique clé
Whether the appellate court violated the debtor's right to be heard and right to reply by deciding before a requested second exchange of written submissions.
Solution extraite
Yes. Once the appellant promptly requested time to reply, the court had to decide that request before ruling on the merits; deciding the case first violated Art. 29(2) BV and Art. 6(1) ECHR.
Motifs extraits
The right to examine and comment on every submission is part of fair trial and the right to be heard. The five-day decision period in summary legal opening proceedings is only an order rule and cannot override that constitutional right. A refusal of further written exchange after the case had already been decided did not cure the defect.