In its General Comment No. 25 on the right to participate in public affairs, voting rights and the right of equal access to public service, the United Nations Human Rights Committee held

) (f) open the sessions, preside over the sessions impartially, and close them; call Members of Parliament to speak, see to it that the Rules of Parliament are observed, announce the results of the voting

    The head of the working group and a member of the relevant electoral commission with a decisive voting right shall prepare a record [ protokol ] on the results of the examination of the signature

According to Article 8, each member of the Federation enjoys voting rights at its meetings in proportion to his paid membership fees.

The first voting judge, Ms Justice Stabel, gave the following reasons: (23)     I have concluded that the reasons given by the High Court do not contravene the presumption of innocence in Article

The CEC checks whether the ConEC records comply with the law and whether they contain any inconsistencies (Article 108.1) and draws up its own final record reflecting the results of voting in all constituencies

    A general court martial consisted of between five and nine voting members, who were joined by a judge advocate who was called upon to determine questions of law or mixed law and fact during

Pursuant to Article 8, each member of the Federation enjoys voting rights at its meetings in proportion to his paid membership fees.

The fact that the conviction of the spouse of a politician could affect people’s voting intentions did not in itself render the matter of public interest such as to justify the publication.

On 30 September he was formally notified of the result of the voting in Parliament.

The CEC checks whether the ConEC records comply with the law and whether they contain any inconsistencies (Article 108.1) and draws up its own final record reflecting the results of voting in all constituencies

If the number of worker and employee representatives at any meeting was unequal, members from the side with the highest number were required to refrain from voting to ensure equality.

Those reforms also restructured the Supreme Council of Judicature (“the SCJ”), expanding its membership to include legal professionals as non ‑ voting participants and granting it authority over

Thus, States do have a right to limit voting in general to those citizens habitually resident in their territory. This Comment also stated that: “15.

Austria judgment (no. 28389/95, 21.03.00), it followed that the pivotal question was whether the reasoning employed by the national courts in determining the compensation claim amounted to the voicing

criminal-law response in Switzerland, that there had been no international law obligation for Switzerland to criminalise such statements, that the Swiss courts appeared to have censured the applicant for voicing

  The criticism of public authorities cannot in principle be penalised; on the contrary, in a democratic society it should be approved of; however, certain standards must be observed when voicing

law presumption of falsity had undermined their plea of defence of qualified privilege and was incompatible with their right to freedom of expression as it had had a “chilling effect” that deterred voicing

He had merely been ordered to refrain from making clearly defined incorrect statements of fact and by no means impeded from voicing his opinion in other less derogatory and defamatory words.