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

Directive 76/207/EEC, equal treatment for male and female workers & Directive 96/34/EC – Framework Agreement on Parental Leave – Abolishment of officials’ posts due to national economic difficulties, assessment of a female worker who took parental leave as compared to workers who remained in active service – Dismissal at the end of parental leave, indirect discrimination

An allegation by the applicant, who claimed to be homosexual, that he would be at risk of ill-treatment if he were to be returned to Sierra Leone - Inadmissible 

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Lack of legal recognition of same-sex partnerships

Excessively formalistic interpretation of domestic law as regards paid maternity leave for adoptive mother - Violation of Article 14

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Exclusion of same-sex couples from “civil unions”

Total removal of applicant’s access rights on account of his attempts to transmit his religious beliefs to his child - Violation of Article 14

Impossibility of second-parent adoption in a same-sex couple - Government's failure to provide convincing reasons for the exclusion second-parent adoption in a same-sex couple, while allowing that possibility in an unmarried different-sex couple, deemed necessary for the protection of the family in the traditional sense or for the protection of the interests of the child, amounts to discrimination

Family abuse - Absorption of the offences of serious threats and battery into the offence of family abuse

Sexual harassment in the workplace - Harassment attributed to the hierarchical superior

Maternity and childhood, protection of working mothers – Adoption and pre-adoptive fostering of a child - Arrangements for payment of maternity allowance for a period of three months following the time the child enters the family home

Same-sex couple – Marriage between same-sex people