Criminal offences and fines - Persecutory acts [the so-called stalking]

Sexual violence committed when forcing someone to perform or be subjected to sexual acts, by means of violence, threats or abuse of authority – Kissing is a sexual act 

Commissioning mother who has had a baby through a surrogacy arrangement – Refusal to grant her maternity leave – Less favourable treatment of a commissioning mother as regards the grant of maternity leave

Commissioning mother who has had a baby through a surrogacy arrangement – Refusal to grant her paid leave equivalent to maternity leave or adoptive leave – Commissioning mother unable to bear a child

Minimum standards for granting refugee status or subsidiary protection status — Fear of persecution on grounds of sexual orientation — Differences between, on the one hand, the limitations that apply to the verification of statements and documentary or other evidence as regards the declared sexual orientation of an applicant for asylum and, on the other hand, those that apply to the verification of those elements as regards other grounds for persecution

Directive 2006/54/EC, equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation – Training course for acquiring the status of a public official – Exclusion on grounds of a prolonged absence, absence attributable to maternity leave

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

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Refusal to give applicant female identity number following sex change unless marriage was transformed into a civil partnership

Article 10 (Freedom of expression) - Publisher ordered to pay damages for an article harshly critical of MP’s remarks and conduct during parliamentary debate on legal regulation of same-sex relationships

Article 3 (Positive obligations) - Failure by State to put appropriate mechanisms in place to protect National School pupil from sexual abuse by teacher

Article 3 (Effective investigation) - Undue delays in criminal proceedings and failure properly to investigate rape and assault allegations

Article 8 (Positive obligations and Respect for private life) Article 14 (Discrimination) - Refusal to prosecute for a joke made during television comedy show about homosexual celebrity referred to as a ‘female’

The applicant was raped by a group of men and the case was delayed for a decade because some of the defendants had emigrated to Austria - Violation of Article 3 (procedure)

The applicant argues that having been subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in his country, he cannot be deported to his country because he would face immediate execution

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Refusal to include woman registered as the mother’s civil partner on child’s birth certificate - Inadmissible

Collective agreement which restricts a benefit in respect of pay and working conditions to employees who marry – Exclusion of partners entering into a civil solidarity pact – Discrimination based on sexual orientation

Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation – Concept of ‘facts from which it may be presumed that there has been discrimination’ – Public statements ruling out the recruitment of a footballer presented as being homosexual

Minimum standards relating to the conditions for granting refugee status or subsidiary protection status – Well-founded fear of being persecuted on account of membership of a particular social group – Acts sufficiently serious to justify such a fear, legislation criminalising homosexual acts

Transferor not less than 55 years old but not yet of normal retirement age at the time of transfer – Concept of ‘normal retirement age’, national legislation determining a retirement age which varies depending on the sex of the applicant and, for women, on the number of children raised – General principles of equal treatment and non-discrimination

Right to leave for employed mothers after the birth of a child – Possible use by an employed mother or an employed father – Non-employed mother who is not covered by a State social security scheme – No right to leave for employed father