Failure to hear the applicant and witnesses on appeal flouted the requirements of the right to a fair trial.
JUDGMENT Camacho Camacho v. Spain 24/09/2019 (application no. 32914/16) see here SUMMARY Fair trial and the principle of adversarial hearing. The applicant was charged with assaulting his ex-wife. He was acquitted at first instance but the public prosecutor appealed . He was sentenced to imprisonment and fined, even though he and several witnesses had never been […]