The disciplinary proceedings as well as the proceedings for the preliminary measure had had a punitive character as well as having infringed his right to continue to exercise his profession.

The Court, being the master of the characterisation to be given in law to the facts of the case (see Akdeniz v.

He observed that the Court was master of the characterisation to be given in law to the facts and could decide to examine the complaints submitted to it under more than one of the Convention's provisions

held that proceedings in which the right to continue to exercise a profession is at stake give rise to “ contestations” (disputes) over civil rights within the meaning of Article 6 § 1   (see Philis

decision, following the proposal, the recommendation, or with the agreement of a tribunal or authority composed at least as to one half of elected judges, within the framework of proceedings of a character