Anayo v. Germany, ECtHR, 20578/07, 21/12/2010
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

Refusal of German courts to allow the applicant to see his biological children, twins, with whom he had never lived - Violation of Article 8

Chavdarov v. Bulgaria, ECtHR, 3465/03, 21/12/2010
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

Inability of biological father to establish in law his paternity of children born to a married woman with whom he had been cohabiting - No violation

Neulinger and Shuruk v. Switzerland, ECtHR, 41615/07, 06/07/2010 [GC]
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

A Swiss mother, fearing her son would be taken abroad by his father, fled Israel to Switzerland, but the Swiss Federal Court later ordered her to return the child to Israel - There would be a violation of Article 8

Dissenting / Concurring: Boštjan M. Zupančič/Giorgio Malinverni, Ireneu Cabral Barreto, Peer Lorenzen, Zdravka Kalaydjieva

Rantsev v. Cyprus and Russia, ECtHR, 25965/04, 07/01/2010
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

Article 4 (Trafficking in human beings) and Article 2 (Effective investigation) - Failure by Cyprus to establish suitable framework to combat trafficking in human beings or to take operational measures to protect victims and failure by Russia to conduct effective investigation into recruitment of a young woman on its territory by traffickers - Failure by Cypriot authorities to conduct effective homicide investigation, in particular, as regards securing relevant evidence abroad under international convention for mutual assistance

Santos Couto v. Portugal, ECtHR, 31874/07, 21/09/2010
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) in conjunction with Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) - The applicant argued that his conviction for homosexual activities with adolescents had been discriminatory as it had been based on his sexual orientation - No violation 

Schalk and Kopf v. Austria, ECtHR, 30141/04, 24/06/2010
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

Article 14 (Discrimination) Article 8 (Respect for family life) Article 12 (Marry) - Inability of same-sex couple to marry - Cohabiting same-sex couple living in a stable relationship constitute “family life” - Inability of same-sex couple to marry

Dissenting / Concurring: Rozakis, Spielmann, Jebens / Malinverni, Kovler

Schwizgebel v. Switzerland, ECtHR, 25762/07, 10/06/2010
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

Unmarried woman of a certain age debarred from adopting a second child - No violation of Article 14

Ternovszky v. Hungary, ECtHR, 67545/09, 14/12/2010
Court: European Court of Human Rights
 | 2010

Liability of health professionals to prosecution effectively depriving expectant mothers of right to medical assistance for home births - Violation of Article 8 (Respect for private life)

Dissenting / Concurring: Dragoljub Popović

151/2009, CC, 01/04/2009
Court: Corte Costituzionale
 | 2009

Medically Assisted Procreation - Possibility of an implantation of up to a maximum of three embryos - The cryopreservation of the embryos is permitted only if the transfer of the embryos into the uterus is not possible due to serious and documented reasons of force majeure relating to the health of the woman which were not foreseeable at the time of fertilisation