Occupational pension scheme in the form of a supplementary retirement pension for former employees of a local authority and their survivors – Method of calculating that pension favouring married recipients over those living in a registered life partnership – Discrimination based on sexual orientation
Judge Rapporteur: D. Šváby
Fundamental rights, Combating discrimination – Equal treatment for men and women, sex as a factor in the assessment of insurance risks – Private life assurance contracts – Directive 2004/113/EC, Article 5(2), Derogation not subject to any temporal limitation
Judge Rapporteur: E. Juhász
Equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security – Exclusion from entitlement to the compensatory supplement of pensioners whose income, including that of the spouse forming part of their household, exceeds that standard amount – Indirect discrimination against women
Judge Rapporteur: A. Prechal
Working mothers – Hypothesis of premature birth and admission of the newly born child to a public or private hospital – Right of the working mother to benefit from all or part of the mandatory period of leave to which she is entitled from the time the child enters the family home, upon request and where compatible with her state of health attested by medical documentation
Medically assisted procreation - Refusal to admit a prisoner in solitary confinement and rigorous imprisonment (Italian art. 41-bis) to medically assisted procreation
Ban preventing healthy carriers of cystic fibrosis from screening embryos for in vitro fertilisation, despite existence of right to therapeutic abortion in domestic law - Violation of Article 8 (Respect for private life)
This case concerned the procedure for awarding parental authority and custody in respect of a child whose mother was Italian and whose father was a San Marino national - The applicants, the mother and the child, complained in particular about a decision ordering the child to be returned to San Marino to live with her father and to attend school there - No violation
An attack on the applicant in the street in the course of which acid was thrown in her face, and the question of the authorities’ obligation to protect people and diligence in the proceedings following the attack - A violation of Articles 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment – procedural aspect) and 8 (right to respect for private and family life)
The respondent government’s proposal to return a Nigerian woman and her two daughters to Nigeria where she claimed her daughters faced the risk of female genital mutilation - There was no evidence sending the applicants back to Nigeria would amount to a violation of Article 3
Inability of father divested of his legal capacity to acknowledge paternity of his child - Violation of Article 8
The custody rights of a mother who had temporarily entrusted the child to her parents-in-law - The applicant complained in particular of the refusal of the domestic courts to order her in-laws to return her son to her and argued that the authorities had not taken the necessary steps to facilitate reunion with her minor son - Violation of Article 8
Article 4 (Trafficking in human beings) - Trafficking of a young Bulgarian girl in Italy not supported by sufficient evidence - Inadmissible
Dissenting / Concurring: Kalaydjieva
The applicant, as Christian, complained that his return to Iraq would involve a violation of Article 3 of the Convention
Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Absence of any legal requirement for newspapers to give advance notice before publishing details of a person’s private life - No violation
Unjustified refusal to recognise the adoption of an adult by his uncle, a monk - Violation of Article 8
Lack of access to prenatal genetic tests resulting in an inability to have an abortion on the grounds of foetal abnormality - violation of Article 3 (Degrading treatment/Inhuman treatment)
Dissenting / Concurring: Nicolas Bratza,Vincent A. De Gaetano
Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Prohibition under domestic law on the use of ova and sperm from donors for in vitro fertilisation - No violation
Dissenting / Concurring: Françoise Tulkens, Päivi Hirvelä, Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska, Nona Tsotsoria
Refusal of German courts to allow the applicant to have contact with a boy who, he claimed, was his biological son - The child’s legitimate father was married to the mother - Violation of Article 8
Article 3 - The applicant alleges in particular that he was subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment by other detainees while in detention, and considers that the authorities failed to take the necessary measures to protect him from this -
Dissenting / Concurring: Spielmann, Nußberger
The allegation of a Slovak woman of Roma ethnic origin that she had
been the victim of forced sterilisation - A violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) - A violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life)
Dissenting / Concurring: Ljiljana Mijović