In the paper is analyzed general theoretical provisions on the right to education and (or) secular education as a component of freedom of religion. Examined the features of the protection of the right to education and freedom of religion by the European Court of Human Rights and its importance to the practice of law in Ukraine.
The article covers theoretical and legal principles of the function of defense in the contemporary criminal procedure. The analyzed phenomena is studied in terms of its ethimological, notional and theoretical legal elements. The author provides with his own view concerning the content and features of the defense, carried out within criminal procedure.
In the presented work the author has defined the principles of interpretation of the freedom of expression by the European Court of Human Rights. On the basis of obtained results the influence of juridical practice of European Court of Human Rights on the law system of Ukraine was founded.