Key legal question
Whether the complainant could demand a public hearing in the appeal against the closure decision
Extracted holding
No; at the closure stage, the complainant could not derive a right to an oral public hearing from Article 6(1) ECHR.
Extracted reasoning
The closure decision concerned only the preliminary question whether criminal proceedings should be opened and did not definitively determine any civil claim or the criminal merits. Swiss law also allowed the civil action to proceed independently.