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

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

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)

Possibility of voluntary termination of pregnancy - Requirements to perform therapeutic abortion - Failure to inform of possible foetus’ malformations

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 

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)

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

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

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

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

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’

Refusal to grant artificial insemination facilities to enable a serving prisoner to father a child - Violation of Article 8

Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Requirement of father’s consent for the continued storage and implantation of fertilised eggs

Refusal to perform a therapeutic abortion despite risks of serious deterioration of the mother’s eyesight - Violation of Article 8 (Respect for private life)

Equal pay for men and women – Illness arising prior to maternity leave, pregnancy-related illness, person subject to the general sick-leave scheme – Effect on pay, absence offset against the maximum total number of days of paid sick leave over a specified period)

Equal treatment for men and women – Article 5(1) of Directive 76/207/EEC – Article 10 of Directive 92/85/EEC – Dismissal of a pregnant worker – Fixed-term employment contract

Protection of pregnant women – Direct effect and scope – Fixed-term contract of employment

Voluntary termination of pregnancy – Husband’s request for compensation for damages – Infringement of “right to paternity”

Equal treatment for men and women – Dismissal of a pregnant woman – Absences due to illness arising from pregnancy

Referendum on the voluntary termination of pregnancy – Abortion legalization with the repeal of currently provided for administrative and judicial procedures and controls, as well as the related incriminatory offences