Bednarek and Others v. Poland, ECtHR, 58207/14, 11/07/2025
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2025

Art 3 (+ Art 14) - Insufficient State response to battery with homophobic overtones committed against the applicants - Domestic legal framework did not include sexual orientation among grounds for the commission of hate crime or discrimination offences - Prima facie indications that two of the applicants suffered violence motivated or influenced by prejudice

Dissenting / Concurring: Serghides / Wojtyczek, Poláčková

L. and Others v. France, ECtHR, 46949/21, 24989/22 and 39759/22, 24/04/2025
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2025

Art 3 and Art 8 (substantive and procedural) Respondent State having failed to effectively apply a criminal system capable of punishing non-consensual sexual acts by minors - Art 14 (+ Art 3 and Art 8) “Secondary victimisation” of one of the minors due to her exposure by the national authorities to guilt-inducing, moralising remarks conveying sexist stereotypes

M.A. v. Iceland, ECtHR, 59813/19, 27/08/2025
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2025

Failure to conduct an effective investigation into applicant’s complaints of domestic violence - Delays and administrative confusion leading to the expiry of limitation periods - Art 14 (+ Art 3 and Art 8) - Alleged gender-based discrimination in handling of domestic violence cases

N.D. v. Switzerland, ECtHR, 56114/18, 03/04/2025
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2025

Art. 2 - Failure of the national authorities to fulfil their positive obligation to protect the applicant's life from violence by her partner - Acts qualified as violence against women - Lack of sufficient coordination between the various services and shortcomings in the applicable domestic law

Dissenting / Concurring: Von Werdt, Mourou-Vikstrom / Felici, Šimackova / Elosegui

N.T. v. Cyprus, ECtHR, 28150/22, 03/07/2025
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2025

Authorities’ failure in their central task of assessing the issue of non-consent - Art 14 (+ Art 3 and Art 8) - Methods used to assess the authenticity of the applicant’s consent deprived her of appropriate protection and exposed her to secondary victimisation

Dissenting / Concurring: Krenc

Semenya v. Switzerland, ECtHR, 10934/21, 10/07/2025
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2025

Art 6 § 1 - Appeal to Federal Supreme Court against Court of Arbitration for Sport award rejecting complaint by professional athlete with differences of sex development, concerning non-State regulations requiring her to lower her natural testosterone level in order to compete in women’s category in international competitions

Dissenting / Concurring: Šimáčková / Bošnjak, Zünd, Šimáčková, Derenčinović / Eicke, Kucsko-Stadlmayer

66/2024, CC, 22/02/2024
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2024

Civil partnership – Automatic dissolution of civil partnership in case of judicial correction of one party’s assigned gender – The judge suspends the effects of the civil partnership until the celebration of the marriage and, in any case, not later than one hundred and eighty days from res judicata of the gender rectification judgment, if the two parties express, personally and jointly, their intention to marry until the required hearing