Smith and Grady v. the United Kingdom, ECtHR, 33985/96, 33986/96, 27/09/1999
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1999

Article 8 (Respect for private life) Article 14 (Discrimination) - Discharge from army due to implementation of policy against participation of homosexual in armed forces - Discharge from army due to implementation of policy against participation of homosexual in armed forces

Dissenting / Concurring: Loucaides

3/1998, CC, 26/01/1998
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1998

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

Sheffield and Horsham v. the United Kingdom, ECtHR, 22985/93, 23390/94, 30/07/1998 [GC]
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1998

Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) – Request of amendment of birth certificates following  gender reassignment by two transgender men – No violation

Dissenting / Concurring: De Meyer, Valticos, Morenilla / Freeland / Bernhardt, Thór Vilhjálmsson, Spielmann, Palm, Wildhaber, Makarczyk, Voicu / Casadevall / van Dijk / Wildhaber

X, Y and Z v. the United Kingdom, ECtHR, 21830/93, 22/04/1997 [GC]
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1997

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

Dissenting / Concurring: Pettiti / De Meyer / Casadevall, Russo, Makarczyk / Thór Vilhjálmsson / Foighel / Gotchev

C-13/94, CJEU, 30/04/1996

Article 5(1) of the Directive 76/207/EEC precludes dismissal of a transsexual for a reason related to a gender reassignment – Intention to undergo gender reassignment, surgery to give the physical attributes of a woman – Discrimination is based, essentially if not exclusively, on the sex of the person concerned 

Judge Rapporteur: P. J. G. Kapteyn

Aydın v. Turkey, ECtHR, 23178/94, 25/09/1997 [GC]
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1995

Detention, rape, and torture of a woman by the Turkish security forces during a counter-terrorism operation – Violation of Article 3 (prohibition of torture), Article 5 (right to liberty and security), and Article 13 (right to an effective remedy)

Dissenting / Concurring: Matscher / Pettiti / Gölcüklü, Matscher, Pettiti, De Meyer, Lopes Rocha, Makarczyk, Gotchev / Gölcüklü,Pettiti, De Meyer, Lopes Rocha, Gotchev / Gölcüklü / De Meyer