While the freedom of association of military personnel could be subject to legitimate restrictions, a blanket ban on forming or joining a trade union encroached on the very essence of that freedom and

The manner of forming and dissolving political parties, as well as the conditions pertaining to their activity, shall be established by law. 4.

    The court went on to hold that although the applicant party had been registered in February 1999 on the basis of a constitution which had been adopted at a founding meeting on 28 February

To avoid another refusal, it simply had to bring its founding documents in line with the applicable requirements.

The competent authorities could and should have taken action earlier in order to place the impugned measure on a more precise legal footing than Article 36 §   1 of the Federal Constitution.

Not for Court to rule in abstracto as to compatibility of domestic law with Convention - fact that law of blasphemy does not treat all religions on equal footing does not detract from legitimacy of aim

Secondly, the Act gives effect to this principle by putting children whose parents have not married each other on the same footing, or as nearly so as possible, as those born within marriage in the areas

B ; - les observations de Me Fozing, avocat commis d'office, représentant M. F, assisté de M.

de Bas, 34 / de Mme Marie-Noëlle Etcheverry, demeurant 6, rue René Coty, 64130 Mauleon Soule, 35 / de Mme Clara Figueroa, demeurant Lotissement Gorre, 64130 Mauleon Soule, 36 / de Mme Maria Fordin

The third party, which contends that the right to form a trade union is subject to receiving the archbishop’s blessing, has not disputed that the union’s founding members are contractual employees.

Article 37 “The founding and activities of political parties and non-governmental organisations are prohibited if their programme goals or actions are aimed at the liquidation of the independence of Ukraine

from the regular party lists and whether – in turn – that electoral threshold had a negative impact on the opportunity of national minority voters to participate in the electoral process on an equal footing

On 11 December 2002 the public prosecutor at the Diyarbakır State Security Court filed a bill of indictment against the applicants and twenty-five other persons, accusing them of founding and being members

          The applicants rely on the facts forming the background to, and set out in, Application No. 11603/85 by the Council of Civil Service Unions and Others

In the present case, however, the Government had failed to provide any explanation as to how the absolute prohibition on forming trade unions, imposed at the time by Turkish law on civil servants and public-sector

The Court pointed out, however, that freedom of the press afforded the public one of the means of discovering and forming an opinion on the ideas and attitudes of leaders, observing in that connection

On 17 and 24 January 2011 the applicant, on behalf of the cultural association of which he was a founding member, asked the Miercurea-Ciuc Mayor’s Office for an authorisation to organise on 26 January

The restriction was based on Article 166 of the 1968 Criminal Code, which prohibited inter alia the forming of political organisations “on a religious basis”.