Positive actions for female entrepreneurship - Financial incentives to businesses run by women or predominantly owned by women
(Direct or indirect) discrimination on grounds of sex - Prohibition of any discrimination between men and women with regard to access to employment and, in particular, to public office
Days off to breastfeed during child’s first year – The father cannot take days off to breastfeed in place of a mother renouncing them – Violation of equality in marriage, parental responsibilities and of the protection of motherhood and children
Protection of female workers – Dismissal for marriage - Prohibition to subject the female employee, within the specified limits, other than individual licensing, to collective licensing procedures for downsizing or temporary layoff
Parental rights after divorce refused the mother in view of her membership of the Jehovah's Witnesses - Violation of Article 8 taken in conjunction with Article 14
Dissenting / Concurring: F. Matscher, B. Walsh, N. Valticos, G. Mifsud Bonnici
Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Prohibition of homosexual relations in private between consenting adults
Dissenting / Concurring: G. Pikis/F. Matscher
Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Non-recognition in law of the new sexual identity of a post-operative transsexual
Dissenting / Concurring: Russo / Bernhardt, Pekkanen, Morenilla, Baka / Matscher, Pinheiro Farinha, Pettiti, Valticos, Loizou, Morenilla / Walsh / Martens
The Ireland Supreme Court's injunction restraining counseling agencies from providing pregnant women with information concerning abortion facilities abroad violated Article 10
Dissenting / Concurring: J. Blayney, A.B. Baka/J.M. Morenilla
Father’s possibility of taking compulsory maternity leave in place of his working wife - Violation of the substantive equality in marriage and their equal participation in the care and assistance of the child and the protection of the child's interest in the development of his or her personality
Working mothers - Termination during pregnancy and childbirth – Obstacle to the achievement of truly equal rights for working women
Interpretation of Articles 2 and 3 of Council Directive 76/207/EEC of 9 February 1976 on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions – Pregnant worker
Interpretation of Council Directive 76/207/EEC of 9 February 1976 on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions
Whether denying a transsexual the right to change their sex on their birth certificate violated the right to privacy under Article 8 - Whether denying a transsexual permission to marry a person of the same (biological) sex violated the right to marry under Article 12.
Dissenting / Concurring: Bindschedler-Robert, Russo / Macdonald, Spielmann / Martens / Palm, Foighel, Pekkanen
Equal treatment for men and women – Limits to economic freedom – Workers' right to equal pay for equal work or work of equal value
Maternity allowance – Female worker absent from work for pre-adoptive fostering of child – Maternity and childhood
Female workers – Old-age pension – Right to work up to the age limits set for men
Protection of working mothers - Mothers employed in dangerous, strenuous and unhealthy work - Impossibility of assignment to other tasks in the postnatal period
Ireland's criminalisation of certain homosexual acts between consenting adult men was in breach of Article 8
Dissenting / Concurring: N. Valticos
Working father - Possibility of taking “days off” in place of the mother - Maternity allowance
Equal treatment for male and female workers - Difference in treatment on grounds of sex – Night work performance by women