L. v. Lithuania, ECtHR, 27527/03, 11/09/2007
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2007

Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) Article 41 (Just satisfaction) - Failure to introduce implementing legislation to enable a transsexual to undergo gender-reassignment surgery and change his gender identification in official documents: violation - Just satisfaction in respect of State’s failure to enact implementing legislation

Dissenting / Concurring: Elisabet Fura-Sandström, Dragoljub Popović

M.C. v. Bulgaria, ECtHR, 39272/98, 4/12/2003
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2003

Article 3 (Positive obligations) and Article 8 (Positive obligations) - Adequacy of protection provided by Bulgarian law for victim of alleged rape - Bulgarian law provided insufficient protection to victim of an alleged act of rape

Dissenting / Concurring: Tulkens

Palau-Martinez v. France, ECtHR, 64927/01, 16/12/2003
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2003

Violation of Article 14 (discrimination) - Placement of children with father, as the mother was a Jehovah’s Witness -  The appeal court had treated the parents differently on the basis of the applicant’s religion, on the strength of a harsh analysis of the educational principles allegedly imposed by the religion

Dissenting / Concurring: W. Thomassen

B.B. v. the United Kingdom, ECtHR, 53760/00, 10/02/2004 [GC]
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2002

Article 14 in conjunction with Article 8 - The applicant alleged discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and on the grounds of age, on the basis that the legislation set down different ages of consent for homosexual and heterosexual acts 

Dissenting / Concurring: Lemmens, Vehabović, Bošnjak / Pinto de Albuquerque / Lemmens, Vehabović, Ranzoni, Bošnjak

Beck, Copp and Bazeley v. the United Kingdom, ECtHR, 48535/99, 48536/99, 48537/99, 22/10/2002
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2002

Article 8, both alone and in conjunction with Article 14 - The applicants complained about both the intrusive investigations into their private lives and about their subsequent discharges from the armed forces pursuant to the absolute policy of the Ministry of Defence against homosexuals in the armed forces