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

Adequacy of measures taken by courts to establish paternity - Violation of Article 8

Protection of female workers - Entitlement to maternity allowance in the event of dismissal of the female employee during the maternity leave - Unreasonable exclusion in breach of the principle of maternity protection

Article 8 (Respect for family life) - Adequacy of measures taken by authorities to enforce court decisions ordering return of children to their mother

Protection of female workers, compulsory ‘post-partum’ maternity leave - Hypothesis of premature birth - Commencement of the period of such leave suitable for ensuring adequate protection for mother and child 

Protection of female workers – Maternity allowance – Alleged violation of the principle of equal treatment, as well as that of the protection of the family

Alleged violation of the rights of working women – Maternity and childhood – Mothers engaged in community service

Refusal to grant custody to a parent living in a homosexual relationship - Violation of Article 8 and 14

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

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

Refusal to register post-operative transsexual as father of child born to partner by artificial insemination by donor - No violation

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

Working mother - Right to optional abstention from work for six months in the first year of the child's life – Abstention also granted to the father, but only if the mother is employed, not if she is self-employed

Exclusion of women from access to public office - Unjustified discrimination on grounds of sex

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

Days off to breastfeed during child’s first year – The father cannot take days off to breastfeed in place of a mother renouncing them – Violation of equality in marriage, parental responsibilities and of the protection of motherhood and children 

Parental rights after divorce refused the mother in view of her membership of the Jehovah's Witnesses - Violation of Article 8 taken in conjunction with Article 14

Father’s possibility of taking compulsory maternity leave in place of his working wife - Violation of the substantive equality in marriage and their equal participation in the care and assistance of the child and the protection of the child's interest in the development of his or her personality

Working mothers - Termination during pregnancy and childbirth – Obstacle to the achievement of truly equal rights for working women

Maternity allowance – Female worker absent from work for pre-adoptive fostering of child – Maternity and childhood