Human rights — Fair trial — Right to a fair hearing in the determination of civil rights and obligations — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950, Article 6(1) — Refusal of registration as accountants to persons previously in practice — Decision that applicants had failed to demonstrate requisite degree of competence — Whether Article 6 applicable

Human rights — Property rights — First Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights, 1950, Article 1 — Refusal of registration as accountants to persons previously in practice — Whether amounting to a deprivation of property rights — Whether Article 1 applicable — Whether Article 1 violated