Question juridique clé
Whether the oral hearing/personal questioning requested by the appellant had to be granted.
Solution extraite
No. The case was to be decided on the file; there was no right to an oral hearing in this written administrative appeal.
Motifs extraits
Foreigners' law proceedings are not a civil dispute under Art. 6 ECHR, and the record was sufficiently clear. The appellant had ample opportunity to submit written arguments, and no additional decisive facts were likely to emerge from a hearing.