Key legal question
Whether the complaint about excessive duration of the cantonal proceedings should be treated as a breach of the right to a hearing within a reasonable time.
Extracted holding
No violation was found on the overall circumstances, although the cantonal court had wrongly declined to examine the claim as a form of formal denial of justice.
Extracted reasoning
The Federal Court held that the applicant could invoke Article 29(1) BV without a separate special interest. On the merits, the total duration and the intervals were justified by the complexity of the matter, repeated procedural rounds, changing legal bases, and technical issues surrounding POLIS.