3/1998, CC, 26/01/1998
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1998

Protection of working mothers – Maternity allowance, upon request, for the period between the two months prior to the expected date of birth and the three months after the actual date of birth, regardless of the actual date of maternity leave – Alleged unequal treatment of female employees obligated by law to maternity leave during the aforementioned period

X, Y and Z v. the United Kingdom, ECtHR, 21830/93, 22/04/1997 [GC]
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1997

Article 8 (Positive obligations and Respect for family life) - Refusal to register post-operative transsexual as father of child born to partner by artificial insemination by donor

Dissenting / Concurring: Pettiti / De Meyer / Casadevall, Russo, Makarczyk / Thór Vilhjálmsson / Foighel / Gotchev

Kroon and Others v. the Netherlands, ECtHR, 18535/91, 27/10/1994
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1994

Legal impossibility for married woman to deny her husband's paternity of her child and thereby enable recognition by biological father - Violation of Article 8

Dissenting / Concurring: J.M. Morenilla, G. Mifsud Bonnici

Marckx v Belgium, ECtHR, 6833/74, 13/06/1979
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1979

No legal bond between an unmarried mother and her child resulted from the mere fact of birth - To create the bond, the mother had either to recognise maternity in specific proceedings or to adopt the child - Violation of Article 8 and 14

Dissenting / Concurring: Balladore Pallieri, Pedersen, Ganshof Van Der Meersch, Evrigenis, Garcia de Enterria, O’donoghue, Thór Vilhjálmsson, Gerald Fitzmaurice, D. Bindschedler-Robert, F. Matscher, J. Pinheiro Farinha