Equal treatment for men and women – Part-time work - Workers of one sex are at a particular disadvantage compared to workers of the other sex

Aggravated abuse criminal offence - Women reporting violence with a clear intent to manipulate the legal system

Persecutory acts [the so-called stalking] - Notion of harassment relevant to the crime of stalking - Creation of an intimidating and hostile climate capable of compromising the offended person's peace of mind and psychological freedom

Female workers - Women workers - Direct discrimination on grounds of sex - Dismissal of an employee because of her pregnancy

Indirect discrimination not to employ a woman for reasons of physical unfitness due to short stature – Recruitment requirements in contrast to the principle of equality not taking into account the existence of the height difference generally found between men and women

Sexual violence criminal offence - The mere lack of consent, not the manifestation of dissent, is required for the commission of the crime of sexual violence

Homicide - Aggravating circumstance provided for the crime of intentional homicide involving the death of a family member or other person in an emotional relation (in the present case, the spouse and a parent)

Law enforcement - Winners absent from work for maternity leave - Violation of equal treatment between women and men and of the special protection of mothers and children

Harassment in the workplace - Harassment is unwanted conduct on grounds of sex with the purpose or effect of violating the dignity of an employee and creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment

Rejection of the registration in Italy of the birth certificate of a child – conceived through recourse to heterologous medically assisted reproduction and born in Italy - naming the intended parent as the child's parent - The legislator has restricted access to heterologous medically assisted reproduction to situations of pathological infertility, which does not include same-sex couples

Recognition of judgment delivered by foreign judge regarding intended mother’s full adoption of a child, biological son of one of the two partners of a female same-sex couple married abroad – Request for transcription of foreign birth certificate – Child born abroad by medically assisted reproduction

The prohibited sexual act is the act that infringes a person's freedom of self-determination in the sexual sphere - The criminal offence of sexual violence is now a crime against personal freedom - Kissing is a sexual act

Protection of women against all forms of violence – Family abuse - Repeated behaviour aimed at physically or psychologically damaging the dignity and identity of the offended person by restricting her self-determination

Sexual violence criminal offence -The Court considers sexual violence also when sexual intercourse is consummated even if only by taking advantage of the state of prostration, distress or diminished resistance in which the victim is reduced

Restraining order applicable when cohabitation between the defendant and the victim is no longer in place - Attempt to violently restore cohabitation may constitute grounds for imposing a restraining order

Protection of victims of domestic and gender-based violence - Suspended sentence granted to the defendant on account of his participation in specific rehabilitation programmes at qualified institutions or associations

The utterance of improper and offensive sentences aloud, in the presence of several users, towards a colleague - Sexually offensive sentences towards a colleague and just cause for dismissal

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Privacy) - Legal impossibility for a transgender parent to indicate their current gender, unrelated to their reproductive function, on the birth certificate of their child conceived after gender reassignment - Fair balance struck between the transgender parent's right to self-determination, the public interests of legal certainty and reliability and consistency of civil status, and the interests and well-being of the child

Article 14 taken in conjunction with Article 3 - The alleged lack of an appropriate procedural response by the domestic authorities in connection with acts of homophobic violence against the applicant, who is a prominent figure in the local LGBTI community - 

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Private and family life) - Absence of any form of legal recognition and protection for same‑sex couples