Article (Freedom of expression) - Seizure and confiscation for more than five years of all copies of edition of a magazine containing article on “pornography”
Contents for term
Article (Freedom of expression) - Seizure and confiscation for more than five years of all copies of edition of a magazine containing article on “pornography”
Article 14 (Discrimination) - Failure to take into account possible discriminatory motives in investigation of homophobic attack
Dissenting / Concurring: Myjer
Article 5 - The applicant alleged that his detention had been unjustified, a situation not remedied by adequate judicial supervision
Article 14 (Discrimination) - Discrimination between unmarried same-sex couples and unmarried different-sex couples in obtaining family reunification
Article 14 (Discrimination) - Refusal to grant a residence permit for family reasons to a foreign same-sex partner
Dissenting / Concurring: Bianku / Sicilianos
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
Article 3 (Positive obligations) and Article 14 (Discrimination) - State’s failure to protect demonstrators from homophobic violence and to launch effective investigation - State’s failure to protect demonstrators from homophobic violence and to launch effective investigation
Dissenting / Concurring: Wojtyczek
Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Gender reassignment surgery made conditional on proof that the person concerned was no longer able to procreate
Dissenting / Concurring: Keller, Spano / Lemmens, Kūris
Minimum standards for granting refugee status or subsidiary protection status — Fear of persecution on grounds of sexual orientation — Differences between, on the one hand, the limitations that apply to the verification of statements and documentary or other evidence as regards the declared sexual orientation of an applicant for asylum and, on the other hand, those that apply to the verification of those elements as regards other grounds for persecution
Judge Rapporteur: L. Bay Larsen
Article 8 (Positive obligations/Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Refusal to give applicant female identity number following sex change unless marriage was transformed into a civil partnership
Dissenting / Concurring: Ziemele / Sajó, Keller and Lemmens
Article 10 (Freedom of expression) - Publisher ordered to pay damages for an article harshly critical of MP’s remarks and conduct during parliamentary debate on legal regulation of same-sex relationships
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 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
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
Judge Rapporteur: D. Šváby
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
Judge Rapporteur: A. Ó Caoimh
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
Judge Rapporteur: L. Bay Larsen
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
Dissenting / Concurring: Mahoney, Tsotsoria, Vehabović
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
Dissenting / Concurring: Josep Casadevall, Ineta Ziemele, Anatoly Kovler, Danutė Jočienė, Ján Šikuta, Vincent A. De Gaetano, Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos / Dean Spielmann
Same-sex couple – Marriage between same-sex people