It is relevant in this respect that some of the applicant's comments in the correspondence submitted to the Commission are of an intemperate nature.

  It noted in particular that the applicant did not resort in his letter to abusive, strong or intemperate language, albeit it might be said to have contained a certain number of emotional expressions

#xa0;   The Federal Court thus balanced the right to raise criticism against the necessity to protect the reputation and rights of others, here the other party's lawyer, from unfair and intemperate

    The Court further notes that the applicant did not resort in his letter to abusive, strong or intemperate language, albeit that it might be said to have contained a certain number of emotional

    Lastly, the Court notes that the applicant did not resort in the excerpt under consideration to abusive, strong or intemperate language; it might be said that the expressions used verged

    The Court notes that the applicants did not resort in their letter to abusive, strong or intemperate language.

The applicant is known for his intemperance and violence and has numerous previous convictions.” 22.     The applicant appealed.

In approving the punishment of Mr Janowski, the Court broadcast a signal that it deems the verbal intemperance of a choleric to be more open to disapproval than the infringement of the rule of law by those

that offence; and that he had misdirected the jury on the law and facts and approached the trial on the basis that they were guilty, displayed this attitude to the jury and made too many and too intemperate

    The Court further observes that, although the article published by the applicant was indeed strongly worded, it did not resort to offensive or intemperate language and did not go beyond the

We are of the opinion that the impugned publication did not resort to offensive or intemperate language and did not go beyond a generally acceptable degree of exaggeration or provocation.

, but public servants must be prepared to tolerate such criticism, where it is personally addressed to them in private correspondence, even where such criticism is expressed in abusive, strong or intemperate

I do not   imply that there was any basis for them whatsoever, but only that nobody took them seriously, and thus they would seem to be, in practical terms and albeit being intemperate, at least harmless

The Court considers that the applicant did not resort to offensive and intemperate language and did not go beyond the generally acceptable degree of exaggeration. 33.

    Moreover, the applicant did not resort in her letter to abusive, strong or intemperate language, although it did contain some emotional expressions verging on exaggeration or provocation,

    The applicant did not resort to abusive, strong or intemperate language, although his letter did contain some expressions verging on exaggeration, such as the allegation that the impugned

present case the applicant had had a letter delivered to his commanding officer which the latter had considered insulting to the armed forces – it is true that the letter contained certain strong and intemperate

Undoubtedly the language in question may be intemperate or even violent. But in a democracy, as our Court has emphasised, even “fighting” words may be protected by Article   10.

indicated that the applicant had “at no point in time suffered from a schizophrenia-type psychosis” (“ zu keinem Zeitpunkt lag eine Psychose aus dem schizophrenen Formenkreis vor ”) and that her intemperate