Cossey v. the United Kingdom, ECtHR, 10843/84, 27/09/1990 [GC]
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1990

Whether denying a transsexual the right to change their sex on their birth certificate violated the right to privacy under Article 8 - Whether denying a transsexual permission to marry a person of the same (biological) sex violated the right to marry under Article 12.

Dissenting / Concurring: Bindschedler-Robert, Russo / Macdonald, Spielmann / Martens / Palm, Foighel, Pekkanen

Dudgeon v. United Kingdom, ECtHR, 7525/76, 22/10/1981 [GC]
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1981

Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, which criminalised male homosexual acts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, breached the defendant's rights under Article 8

Dissenting / Concurring: Zekia / Evrigenis, García de Enterría / Matscher / Pinheiro Farinha / Walsh

Marckx v Belgium, ECtHR, 6833/74, 13/06/1979
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1979

No legal bond between an unmarried mother and her child resulted from the mere fact of birth - To create the bond, the mother had either to recognise maternity in specific proceedings or to adopt the child - Violation of Article 8 and 14

Dissenting / Concurring: Balladore Pallieri, Pedersen, Ganshof Van Der Meersch, Evrigenis, Garcia de Enterria, O’donoghue, Thór Vilhjálmsson, Gerald Fitzmaurice, D. Bindschedler-Robert, F. Matscher, J. Pinheiro Farinha