Questão jurídica principal
Whether the refusal to hold a public hearing was valid and whether the delegated judge had competence to decide it.
Decisão extraída
The denial could not be upheld by the delegated judge; the competence lay with the commission president. The case did not yet concern civil rights within Article 6 ECHR.
Fundamentação extraída
A public hearing under Article 6 ECHR is only required where civil rights or criminal charges are directly at stake. At this stage, expropriation issues were not yet decided. Under the commission ordinance, the power to order or refuse such a hearing belongs to the president, not the instructing judge.