Succession - Infringement of the principle of equality between men and women – Men preferred to women in choosing the heir
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Succession - Infringement of the principle of equality between men and women – Men preferred to women in choosing the heir
Discrimination against women - 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 and sexual acts with a minor – Regarding child sexual assault, the second interview of the offended parties must be limited to exceptional cases
Equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation — Competition for entry to the police school of a Member State — Law of that state imposing a minimum physical height requirement on all candidates for admission to that competition
Judge Rapporteur: R. Silva de Lapuerta
Directive 92/85/EEC, Article 4(1), Protection of the safety and health of workers — Breastfeeding worker, risk assessment of her work, challenged by the worker concerned — Directive 2006/54/EC, Article 19, equal treatment, discrimination on grounds of sex
Judge Rapporteur: F. Biltgen
Framework Agreement on part-time work concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC, male and female workers — Equal treatment in matters of social security — National legislation excluding days not worked from the contribution period for the purpose of establishing the duration of the benefit
Judge Rapporteur: F. Biltgen
Investigations carried out without due diligence - 'Crime of passion' as a part of a stereotype justifying violence against women and excusing the aggressor's conduct - State's stereotyped assessment of the investigation on the victim's personal relationships and lifestyle - Victim blaming by State agents
Provisions of international and EU law on so-called ‘gender-based violence’ – Family abuse – Alleged victim of stalking
Registration in Italy of a foreign birth certificate establishing two same-sex parents – Foreign birth certificate recognizing the child has two mothers
Legitimate children’s surname - Automatic attribution of the father’s surname even if desired otherwise by the parents [who may so jointly request to give the child also the mother’s surname]
Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and age — Payment of a survivor’s benefit to the civil partner — Partnership contracted before the 60th birthday of the member of the scheme
Judge Rapporteur: R. Silva de Lapuerta
Measures to improve the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding — National law providing for an allowance for ordinary magistrates in respect of expenses which they incur in the performance of their professional functions — No entitlement for an ordinary magistrate to that allowance in the case of compulsory maternity leave taken prior to 1 January 2005
Judge Rapporteur: M. Safjan
Recruitment of hundreds of female and male workers from low-income communities to work in a privately-owned cattle ranch with the promise of good salaries followed by forced labor and servitude, inhumane working and deplorable living conditions, including withholding of wages, threats and violence under the constant vigilance by armed guards - Violation of the right to freedom from slavery and trafficking, to judicial protection, and to effective remedy
Dissenting / Concurring: Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot / Vio Grossi / Sierra Porto
Judicial correction of the assigned gender – Possibility subject to modifications to the sex characteristics of the interested party – The modification of primary sexual characteristics through surgery is necessary
Technical requirements relating to blood and blood components, blood donation — Eligibility criteria for blood donors, persons whose sexual behaviour puts them at a high risk of acquiring severe infectious diseases that can be transmitted by blood — Man who has had sexual relations with another man
Judge Rapporteur: M. Safjan
Equal treatment of male and female workers, part-time workers, primarily female — National legislation providing for a maximum amount of unemployment benefit — Legislation referring, for the purposes of the calculation of that amount, to the relationship between the working hours of the part-time employees concerned and the working hours of full-time employees
Judge Rapporteur: A. Prechal
Individual right to parental leave on the grounds of the birth of a child — National legislation denying the right to such leave for a staff member whose wife does not work — Equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation
Judge Rapporteur: M. Safjan
Equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation — Discriminatory dismissal — Compensation or reparation for the loss and damage actually sustained
Judge Rapporteur: M. Safjan
Sexual violence criminal offence – Ban on the extenuating circumstance regarding minor offences referred to in the third paragraph of Article 609-bis of the Italian Criminal Code (sexual violence)
Judicial correction of the assigned gender – Effects of the judgment regarding the correction on preexisting marriage – Automatic termination of the civil effects resulting from the registration of the marriage celebrated by religious rite, without the need for an application and judicial decision