This article focuses on a specific standard by which the right to a fair trial is interpreted in the context of the right to legal assistance and the right to examine witnesses under Article 6 ECHR, the standard of overall fairness. The first section argues that the standard of overall fairness undermines the rule of law and represents a problematic conception of the right to a fair trial. The second section links overall fairness to the Court’s wider methodological approach to adjudication, namely ad hoc balancing, and establishes that ad hoc balancing is vulnerable to similar critiques. The third section advocates for a legal doctrine which rejects the theoretical assumptions of balancing and sets the basis for a reconceptualisation of the European Court of Human Rights’ approach to methodology and to the grant of remedies.

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权衡总体公平：对《欧洲人权公约》第6条的刑事犯罪进行平衡的批评

本文着眼于一个特定的标准，在法律援助权和根据《欧洲人权公约》第6条（整体公正性标准）对证人的询问权的背景下，对公正审判权进行了解释。第一部分认为，整体公平的标准破坏了法治，代表了对公正审判权的理解。第二部分将总体公平与法院更广泛的裁决方法，即临时平衡相联系，并确定临时平衡容易受到类似批评的影响。第三部分主张建立一种法律学说，该学说拒绝关于平衡的理论假设，并为重新构想欧洲人权法院对方法论和给予补救的方法奠定了基础。