Key legal question
Whether rejecting an email objection to a criminal order as formally invalid was an excessive formalism under Art. 29(1) BV.
Extracted holding
The refusal was too strict in the circumstances; an email objection from a layperson should not have been disregarded without allowing correction.
Extracted reasoning
Where no specific rule governs electronic filings, a handwritten original signature may be required, but the authority still had to warn the sender of the curable formal defect. The complainant had innocently omitted the signature and had enough time left in the objection period to cure the defect.