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
Article 2 (Positive obligations) - Absence of provision in criminal law to sanction involuntary termination of pregnancy - No violation
Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) and Article 13 (right to an effective remedy) - Ill-treatment of a woman by Turkish police officers during detention
Dissenting / Concurring: Sajó
Equal treatment for male and female workers –Right to leave for employed mothers – Possible use by an employed mother or an employed father
Judge Rapporteur: P. Lindh
Civil service, contract staff — Family allowances, same-sex couple, household allowance, condition for granting — Access to legal marriage
Judge Rapporteur: H. Tagaras
Same-sex future spouses’ request seeking to obtain publication of notice of their intention to marriage - Refusal of the civil registrar since Italian legal system makes no provision for marriage between individuals of the same sex on the grounds that this would be contrary to public order - Refusal to allow persons of homosexual orientation to contract marriage with persons of the same sex
Maternity allowance - Right of the self-employed father to receive maternity allowance in place of the biological mother - Alleged unjustified unequal treatment between self-employed fathers and mothers and between self-employed and employed fathers
Same-sex couple – Marriage between same-sex people
Protection of female workers – Maternity allowance – Alleged violation of the principles of maternity and child protection and the principle of the protection of working mothers
Prohibition on cryopreservation of supernumerary embryos - Admissibility of cryopreservation of embryos until the date of transfer only for serious and documented force majeure relating to the woman's health
Torture and rape of an indigenous woman by military personnel - State's failure to comply with due diligence to investigate and punish the perpetrators - Ineffective investigations - Violation of the right to personal integrity, dignity, to private life, to judicial protection and to an effective remedy
Dissenting / Concurring: Espinosa
Rape of an indigenous girl by members of the army - Ineffective investigations - State's failure to prevent, investigate and punish violence against women – Violation of the obligation of non-discrimination in accessing justice
Dissenting / Concurring: Abreu Blondet / Espinosa
State's inability to recover ancestral property belonging to the Xákmok Kásek indigenous community - Lack of access to property and possession threatening the survival of the community, resulting in nutritional, medical and health vulnerability of its members, particularly pregnant women, children, and the elderly - Violation of the right to judicial protection, to life, to personal integrity, to non-discrimination, to property as well as children rights
Judge Rapporteur: Discrimination against women, gender-based violence, property
Dissenting / Concurring: Vio Grossi / Fogel Pedrozo
The complaint by three women that the restrictions on abortion in Ireland stigmatised and humiliated them, risked damaging their health, and, in the third applicant’s case, even her life - violation of Article 8 (right to private and family life) in respect of the third applicant
Dissenting / Concurring: Christos Rozakis, Françoise Tulkens, Elisabet Fura, Päivi Hirvelä,Giorgio Malinverni, Mihai Poalelungi / Luis López Guerra, Josep Casadevall, Mary Finlay Geoghegan
Article 10 (Freedom of expression) - Seizure of translation of erotic literary work and conviction of publisher