4.  The applicant was born in 1963 and lives in Leithen. 5.  In 2007, the applicant was recipient of emergency relief payments (Notstands­hilfe) under the Unemployment Insurance Act (Arbeitslosen­versicherungs­gesetz). 6.  On 18 September 2007 the Salzburg Labour Market Service (Arbeitsmarkt­service) withdrew payments of emergency relief for eight weeks finding that the applicant had thwarted an employment offer. The applicant appealed contesting the establishment of facts by the authority and requesting the taking of further evidence. 7.  On 24 October 2007 the Salzburg Regional Labour Market Service, without holding an oral hearing, dismissed the appeal as unfounded. It found that the applicant’s information to the potential employer to be only available for work until 4 p.m. due to continuing education that the applicant followed at the time was effectively a frustration of an attempt to find employment. 8.  The Constitutional Court (Verfassungsgerichtshof) dismissed the applicant’s request for legal aid to lodge a complaint on 28 February 2008. 9.  However, after having been awarded legal aid, the applicant lodged a complaint with the Administrative Court (Verwaltungs­gerichtshof), explicitly requesting an oral hearing. 10.  On 2 July 2008 the Administrative Court dismissed the applicant’s complaint as unfounded. On the merits it found that the applicant had not acted sufficiently seriously interested in the employment offer at issue and therefore had thwarted an attempt to find employment. The withdrawal of the emergency relief by the authorities, based on the Unemployment Insurance Act, had therefore not been unlawful. With regard to the decision not to hold an oral hearing the Administrative Court stated that, since the relevant facts had already been established and since the legal questions were sufficiently answered by existing case-law, an oral hearing had not been necessary. 11.  That judgment was served on the applicant’s counsel on 3 October 2008.