Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Supreme Courts (Spain) - Tribunal Constitucional

Date: 04/14/2011

Subject: The decision also recalling the jurisprudence of the Court of Strasbourg, declares itself in favour of the claimant by recognizing that the decision of the Bishopric of Almeria, which was ratified by the first instance and appeal decisions, to dismiss her from her role of religion teacher for having married a divorced man, amounts to a discrimination for personal reasons as well as a violation of the right to ideological freedom, linked to the right to marry according to law provisions, and of the rights to personal and family privacy

Parties: Doña Resurrección Galera Navarro

Original language: Spanish

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Art. 9 Right to marry - Right to found a family - Art. 10 Freedom of thought - Freedom of conscience - Freedom of religion - Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination

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