Question juridique clé
Whether the cantonal court violated Article 6(1) ECHR by refusing the insured's request for a public hearing.
Solution extraite
Yes. In this social-insurance dispute, none of the recognised exceptions justified dispensing with the requested public hearing.
Motifs extraits
The request was timely and not abusive; the case was not obviously inadmissible or unfounded; and the dispute over natural and adequate causal link was not highly technical. A written review of the file did not suffice to replace the hearing.