33/2025, CC, 20/01/2025
Court: Corte Costituzionale
 | 2025

International adoption – Unnecessary interference in a democratic society of the provision preventing single persons from applying for the declaration of suitability to adopt and the judge from issuing a decree of suitability for international adoption – Constitutional illegitimacy of art. 29-bis, par. 1 of law no. 184 of 4/05/1983

L. and Others v. France, ECtHR, 46949/21, 24989/22 and 39759/22, 24/04/2025
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2025

Art 3 and Art 8 (substantive and procedural) Respondent State having failed to effectively apply a criminal system capable of punishing non-consensual sexual acts by minors - Art 14 (+ Art 3 and Art 8) “Secondary victimisation” of one of the minors due to her exposure by the national authorities to guilt-inducing, moralising remarks conveying sexist stereotypes

N.D. v. Switzerland, ECtHR, 56114/18, 03/04/2025
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2025

Art. 2 - Failure of the national authorities to fulfil their positive obligation to protect the applicant's life from violence by her partner - Acts qualified as violence against women - Lack of sufficient coordination between the various services and shortcomings in the applicable domestic law

Dissenting / Concurring: Von Werdt, Mourou-Vikstrom / Felici, Šimackova / Elosegui

N.S. v. The United Kingdom, ECtHR, 25/03/2025
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2025

Art 8 • Family life • Decision to grant final adoption order in respect of a child already subject to a placement order, against the wishes of his mother, who has a history of mental health support needs, formally severing the biological ties and creating legal ties with the adoptive family

143/2024, CC, 03/07/2024
Court: Corte Costituzionale
 | 2024

Judicial correction of the assigned gender – Possibility to assign a ‘third gender’ other than male or female gender – Alleged violation of the principle of equality, the right to personal identity, the right to health and the right to private and family life

148/2024, CC, 04/07/2024
Court: Corte Costituzionale
 | 2024

Rights and protections of family member working continuously in the family or family business – Inclusion of de facto cohabiting partner – Violation of fundamental personal rights, unequal treatment and the right to work and fair pay

66/2024, CC, 22/02/2024
Court: Corte Costituzionale
 | 2024

Civil partnership – Automatic dissolution of civil partnership in case of judicial correction of one party’s assigned gender – The judge suspends the effects of the civil partnership until the celebration of the marriage and, in any case, not later than one hundred and eighty days from res judicata of the gender rectification judgment, if the two parties express, personally and jointly, their intention to marry until the required hearing

33334, CSC, 12/04/2024
Court: Corte Suprema di Cassazione
 | 2024

Sexual violence and sexual acts with a minor – Aggravating circumstance of physical or mental inferiority in the sexual violence criminal offence - Student abused by music teacher