Abstract With the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the courts almost invariably (although to different degrees) started closing doors to physical presence and a new interest in remote forms of the administration of justice—notably online hearings—has emerged from the margins of legal research and practice. This article focuses on online hearings as the most critical aspect of the remote administration of justice, which still remains, theoretically and empirically, a largely unexplored area of legal process. It discusses the conceptual problems of online hearings from the perspective of European human rights law, notably Article 6 (the right to a fair trial) of the European Convention on Human Rights. On the basis of this assessment, the article identifies the limits to the use of online hearings flowing from the perspective of the right to a fair trial. It also cautions against any injudicious attempts to turn the pandemic-related extraordinary mode of functioning of court hearings into a new ordinary state of affairs and proposes ways in which the associated risks could be averted.

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公平在线听证的权利

摘要随着 Covid-19 大流行的爆发，法院几乎总是（尽管程度不同）开始关闭实体存在的大门，并且对远程司法形式（尤其是在线听证会）产生了新的兴趣。法律研究与实践。本文重点关注作为远程司法最关键方面的在线听证会，从理论上和经验上，它仍然是法律程序中一个很大程度上未被探索的领域。它从欧洲人权法的角度讨论了在线听证会的概念问题，特别是《欧洲人权公约》第 6 条（公平审判权）。在此评估的基础上，该文章从公平审判权的角度确定了使用在线听证会的限制。它还告诫不要将与大流行相关的法庭听证会的特殊运作模式转变为新的正常事务状态的任何不明智的尝试，并提出可以避免相关风险的方法。