Questão jurídica principal
Whether the cantonal court had to hold a public hearing under Art. 6 ECHR despite the medical nature of the dispute.
Decisão extraída
A public hearing was required; the conditions for refusing the requested hearing were not met.
Fundamentação extraída
The case was not sham, dilatory, obviously inadmissible, or highly technical. A dispute over work capacity based on medical reports does not by itself justify dispensing with an oral public hearing, and the court could not decide solely from the file without infringing Art. 6 ECHR.