Harassment, persecution, physical and verbal attacks against people linked to a television station because of their exercise of their freedom of expression, including twelve women targets of gendered attacks –Intimidating statements made by government officials in a context of high social polarization and conflict – Violation of the right to freedom of expression and to effective investigations
Dissenting / Concurring: Paceri Scaramuzza
Harassment, persecution, physical and verbal attacks against people linked to a television channel, including women targeted because of their gender – Intimidating statements made by government officials in a context of high social polarization and conflict – Violation of the right to freedom of expression and to effective investigations
Dissenting / Concurring: Paceri Scaramuzza
Inability of a father to exercise his contact rights in relation to his son during the course of divorce proceedings - Violation of Article 8 (Respect for family life)
Former patients prevented from photocopying their medical records - Applicants’ inability to effectively present their case due to authorities’ refusal to grant them access to decisive evidence - Violation of Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) and 6 (Access to court)
Dissenting / Concurring: Ján Šikuta
Article 8 (Positive obligations) - Flawed implementation of domestic criminal-law mechanisms in respect of applicant’s allegations of physical violence by private individuals
Dissenting / Concurring: Spielmann
Article 6 (Fair hearing/Public hearing) Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Refusal to hear expert evidence in case concerning liability for medical costs incurred in connection with sex-change operation and lack of public hearing in case concerning liability for medical costs incurred in connection with sex-change operation - Balancing of competing interests of applicant and her insurers in case concerning liability for medical costs incurred in connection with a sex-change operation
Dissenting / Concurring: Vajić, Jebens
Refusal to allow into territorial waters vessel chartered for use in support of campaign for decriminalisation of voluntary termination of pregnancy - Violation of Article 10
Violation of Article 14 (discrimination) - Inability of father of a child born out of wedlock to obtain joint custody without the mother’s consent - The applicant had been treated differently from mothers or from married or divorced fathers in that he had required his former partner's consent to joint custody
Dissenting / Concurring: Bertram Schmitt
Survivors’ benefits under a compulsory occupational pensions scheme – Refusal because the persons concerned were not married – Discrimination based on sexual orientation
Judge Rapporteur: J. Klučka
Directive 92/85/EEC, Measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding – Meaning of ‘pregnant worker’; prohibition of dismissal of pregnant workers during the period from the beginning of their pregnancy to the end of the maternity leave − Woman dismissed where, at the date she was given notice of her dismissal, her ova had been fertilised in vitro, but not yet transferred to her uterus
Judge Rapporteur: A. Ó Caoimh
Protection of working mothers – Termination of pregnancy before the 180th day from the beginning of gestation - Dismissal of the female employee because of regulatory legislation excluding from maternity protection pregnancy that ended before one hundred and eighty days from the beginning of gestation
Sexual violence criminal offence - Reliability of statements made by the victim of sexual violence - Wearing jeans-type trousers, which do not hinder touching of intimate parts, cannot affect the victim's trustworthiness
Refusal to grant approval for the purposes of adoption, on the ground of the applicant’s lifestyle as a lesbian living with another woman - The Court considered that the reference to the applicant's homosexuality had been, if not explicit, at least implicit, and that the influence of the applicant’s avowed homosexuality on the assessment of her application had been established and, having regard to the foregoing, had been a decisive factor in the decision to refuse her authorisation to adopt - The domestic authorities had made a distinction based on considerations regarding her sexual orientation, a distinction that was unacceptable under the Convention
Dissenting / Concurring: Jean-Paul Costa, Riza Türmen, Mindia Ugrekhelidze, Danutė Jočienė, Boštjan Zupančič, Loukis Loucaides, Antonella Mularoni / Peer Lorenzen, Sverre Erik Jebens
Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Gynaecological examination imposed on a detainee without her free and informed consent
Dissenting / Concurring: Björgvinsson, Garlicki
Failure to examine request for adoption by foster parents before declaring child free for adoption - Violation of Article 8 (Positive obligations/Respect for family life)
Article 8 – Dismissal of a probation officer working with sex offenders by his employer for his involvement in BDSM-related activities and performing in fetish clubs
Protection of pregnant women, Directive 92/85/EEC, Article 10, Prohibition on dismissal from the beginning of pregnancy to the end of maternity leave − Period of protection, decision to dismiss a female worker during that period of protection; notification and implementation of the decision to dismiss after the expiry of that period − Equal treatment for male and female workers
Judge Rapporteur: A. Ó Caoimh
Equal treatment for men and women, protection of pregnant employees – Right to maternity leave – Effect on the right to obtain an alteration of the duration of ‘child-care leave’
Judge Rapporteur: J. Malenovský
Paternity denial of child conceived during marriage - Prior proof of the wife's adultery at the time of conception
Crimes against sexual freedom - Performance of sexual acts with a minor younger than fourteen - Ignorance regarding the age of the injured party