Key legal question
Whether the cantonal appeal body was improperly composed because one judge had not attended the evidentiary hearing.
Extracted holding
No. A judge may take part in judgment without having attended every prior hearing if the evidence hearing was minuted and the judge had access to the file.
Extracted reasoning
The minutes were signed and no correction was requested; the absent judge had the same relevant dossier knowledge as the others, and no recusal ground was shown.