Article 8 (Positive obligations/Private and family life) - Absence of any form of legal recognition and protection for same‑sex couples

Art 8 (Positive obligations/Private and family life) - Absence of any form of legal recognition and protection for same-sex couples _ Confirmation of positive obligation to provide legal framework affording such couples adequate recognition and protection

Article 14 (+ Article 8) (Discrimination/Private and family life) - Absence of any form of legal recognition and protection for a same-sex couple - Unjustified difference in treatment of a same-sex couple vis-à-vis different-sex couples on the basis of sexual orientation

Article 8( Positive obligations) - Absence of any form of legal recognition and protection for same-sex couples - Respondent State’s failure to comply with positive obligation to ensure legal recognition and protection of such couples through specific legal framework

The applicants’ complaint about the way the second applicant’s birth certificate was set out after a second-parent adoption, and their allegation of discrimination in this respect against same-sex couples, relate to Articles 8 and 14 of the Convention - Inadmissible

A female married couple who had applied for medically assisted reproduction by means of artificial insemination - The application was rejected by a hospital on the grounds that “the Bioethics Law currently in force in France did not authorise such medical provision for same-sex couples” - inadmissible

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Different-sex couple denied access to registered partnership reserved exclusively for same-sex couples - No violation

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Difference in rights to retrospective survivor’s pension between same-sex couples and unmarried different-sex couples - No violation

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Refusal to include woman registered as the mother’s civil partner on child’s birth certificate - Inadmissible

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Lack of legal recognition of same-sex partnerships

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Exclusion of same-sex couples from “civil unions”

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Refusal to recognize a homosexual's right to transfer a lease after the death of his partner

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Refusal of reversionary pension to survivor of civil partnership between two people of the same sex