The husband initiated proceedings under the Hague Convention for the minor’s return to Norway and obtained an order from the Latvian courts - The applicant claimed this decision violated their right to family life and was made through a flawed procedure - Violation of Article 6 with respect to the right to adversarial proceedings and equality of arms

Article 11 (Freedom of association) Article 14 (Discrimination) - Refusal to register LGBT associations: violation - Refusal to register LGBT associations

Article 4 (Trafficking in human beings) - Shortcomings in response to criminal complaint of human-trafficking

Article 8 (Family life) - Opinion of 11 year old child not taken into account in return proceedings under Hague Convention - No violation

Article 8 (Respect for private life) Article 6 (Fair hearing/Equality of arms) Article 7 (Nullum crimen sine lege) - Criminal conviction for certain sadomasochistic practices with others 

Article 8 (Respect for private life) and Article 6 (Fair hearing) - Refusal of application for prior approval as a prospective adopter presented by an unmarried homosexual man, on the ground of his “choice of lifestyle”: no violation - Failure to summon to appear at hearing before Conseil d’Etat an unrepresented plaintiff who had no opportunity of seeing the submissions of commissaire du Gouvernement: violation

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 

Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Prosecution and conviction for sado-masochistic practices