Article 8 - This case concerned proceedings in Georgia for the return of the applicant’s son, born in 2004, to Ukraine
Article 8 - The applicant’s inability to secure the return to Switzerland of his children, who had been taken to France by their mother
The applicant alleged that she had been a victim of a breach of Articles 3 and 8 of the Convention on account of the State’s failure to conduct a proper investigation into her allegation of rape committed against her - The applicant also complained that there had not been any effective remedies available to her as required by Article 13 of the Convention in respect of the above breaches.
Article 3 (Positive obligations) and Article 14 (Discrimination) - State’s failure to protect demonstrators from homophobic violence and to launch effective investigation - State’s failure to protect demonstrators from homophobic violence and to launch effective investigation
Dissenting / Concurring: Wojtyczek
Article 8 (Respect for home) - Lack of appropriate legal framework to protect occupant of flat from harassment by co-owners
Article 8 (Respect for family life) - Failure to conduct return proceedings under Brussels IIa regulation expeditiously and efficiently
Article 3 (Procedual) - The applicant alleged that the trial concerning her rape had been unduly long and had not been conducted with the required diligence
Article 3 - The applicant alleged that the criminal proceedings concerning her rape had been unduly long and had not been conducted with the required diligence
The procedure for the return of the first applicant, the daughter of the second applicant, to her country of habitual residence, Cyprus - There would be a violation of Article 8 if the decision ordering the child’s return to Cyprus were to be enforced
Dissenting / Concurring: Elisabeth Steiner, Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos
Article 3 (prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment) - the procedure for the applicant's deportation to Guinea
Article 3 (Expulsion) - Proposed deportation of young Somali woman to Mogadishu (Somalia) - Deportation would not constitute a violation
Article 3 - The applicant alleged that the criminal proceedings concerning the sexual assaults against her had been unreasonably delayed, lacked impartiality, and exposed her to several traumatic experiences violating her personal integrity
Dissenting / Concurring: Yudkivska
Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Gender reassignment surgery made conditional on proof that the person concerned was no longer able to procreate
Dissenting / Concurring: Keller, Spano / Lemmens, Kūris
Commissioning mother who has had a baby through a surrogacy arrangement – Refusal to grant her maternity leave – Less favourable treatment of a commissioning mother as regards the grant of maternity leave
Judge Rapporteur: M. Safjan
Commissioning mother who has had a baby through a surrogacy arrangement – Refusal to grant her paid leave equivalent to maternity leave or adoptive leave – Commissioning mother unable to bear a child
Judge Rapporteur: M. Safjan
Minimum standards for granting refugee status or subsidiary protection status — Fear of persecution on grounds of sexual orientation — Differences between, on the one hand, the limitations that apply to the verification of statements and documentary or other evidence as regards the declared sexual orientation of an applicant for asylum and, on the other hand, those that apply to the verification of those elements as regards other grounds for persecution
Judge Rapporteur: L. Bay Larsen
Directive 2006/54/EC, equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation – Training course for acquiring the status of a public official – Exclusion on grounds of a prolonged absence, absence attributable to maternity leave
Judge Rapporteur: F. Biltgen
Sexual violence criminal offence – Ban on the extenuating circumstance regarding minor offences referred to in the third paragraph of Article 609-bis of the Italian Criminal Code (sexual violence)
Assisted Reproductive Technologies - Bar on heterologous medically assisted reproduction and fines to facilities performing it - Incompatibility with the provisions of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) private family establishing the right to respect for private and family life and the prohibition of discrimination
Judicial correction of the assigned gender – Effects of the judgment regarding the correction on preexisting marriage – Automatic termination of the civil effects resulting from the registration of the marriage celebrated by religious rite, without the need for an application and judicial decision