Key legal question
Whether a public hearing and public deliberation had to be held before the Federal Court
Extracted holding
No entitlement arose; the request for a public hearing was late because no such request had been made before the lower court, and public deliberation was not required by law.
Extracted reasoning
Federal proceedings are generally written; any Art. 6 ECHR public-hearing right must ordinarily be invoked at first instance, otherwise it is forfeited. Public deliberation occurs only in statutorily provided cases.