Article 14 (Discrimination) - Different age of consent for homosexual and heterosexual acts
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Article 14 (Discrimination) - Different age of consent for homosexual and heterosexual acts
Article 3 (Positive obligations) and Article 8 (Positive obligations) - Adequacy of protection provided by Bulgarian law for victim of alleged rape - Bulgarian law provided insufficient protection to victim of an alleged act of rape
Dissenting / Concurring: Tulkens
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8 - The applicant alleged discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and on the grounds of age, on the basis that the legislation set down different ages of consent for homosexual and heterosexual acts
Dissenting / Concurring: Lemmens, Vehabović, Bošnjak / Pinto de Albuquerque / Lemmens, Vehabović, Ranzoni, Bošnjak
Article 8 (Respect for private life) and Article 12 (Marry) - Absence of legal recognition of change of sex - Impossibility for transsexual to marry
Dissenting / Concurring: Fischbach / Türmen / Greve
Appeal - Household allowance, married official - Registered partnership under Swedish law
Judge Rapporteur: J.-P. Puissochet
Article 8 (respect for private life), Article 6 (civil proceedings and fair hearing) – Refusal to order private insurance company to reimburse costs of gender re-assignment surgery
Dissenting / Concurring: Ress / Cabral Barreto, Hedigan, Greve
Reducing someone to a ‘condition similar to slavery’ is an offence - Slavery, trafficking in persons and coercion - Prostitution under systematic violence and segregation
Gang rape criminal offence - Failure to apply the extenuating circumstance regarding minor offences - Alleged violation of the principle of equality and the re-educative function of punishment
Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Conviction for gross indecency involving several men in private
Equal treatment of men and women – Refusal of travel concessions to cohabitees of the same sex
Judge Rapporteur: J.-P. Puissochet
Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) – Request of amendment of birth certificates following gender reassignment by two transgender men – No violation
Dissenting / Concurring: De Meyer, Valticos, Morenilla / Freeland / Bernhardt, Thór Vilhjálmsson, Spielmann, Palm, Wildhaber, Makarczyk, Voicu / Casadevall / van Dijk / Wildhaber
Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Prosecution and conviction for sado-masochistic practices
Dissenting / Concurring: L.-E. Pettiti
Repeated rape and torture of a woman detained on suspicion of participating in alleged terrorist group –Violation of the right to personal liberty, to humane treatment, to non-discrimination and to a fair trial
Dissenting / Concurring: Montiel Argüllo / Cançado Trinidade, Jackman
Detention, rape, and torture of a woman by the Turkish security forces during a counter-terrorism operation – Violation of Article 3 (prohibition of torture), Article 5 (right to liberty and security), and Article 13 (right to an effective remedy)
Dissenting / Concurring: Matscher / Pettiti / Gölcüklü, Matscher, Pettiti, De Meyer, Lopes Rocha, Makarczyk, Gotchev / Gölcüklü,Pettiti, De Meyer, Lopes Rocha, Gotchev / Gölcüklü / De Meyer
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
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
Ireland's criminalisation of certain homosexual acts between consenting adult men was in breach of Article 8
Dissenting / Concurring: N. Valticos
Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) – Request of amendment of birth certificate according to post-transition gender by a transgender man – No violation
Dissenting / Concurring: Bindschedler-Robert, Russo, Gersing
Article 8 (right to private life) - A mentally handicapped girl was raped but had no legal capacity to appeal against the prosecution’s decision not to press charges