Question juridique clé
Whether direct postal service abroad of the contravention notices invalidated the conviction
Solution extraite
The challenge failed: even if the initial notifications were defective, the appellant did not show that this affected the later judicial conviction; moreover, the Geneva contraventions service was treated as a judicial authority entitled to use direct postal service under the relevant convention declarations.
Motifs extraits
The court distinguished the validity of the administrative notices from the separate criminal judgment, and held that the service fell within Switzerland's functional definition of judicial authority under the convention and the Second Additional Protocol.