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

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

Kroon and Others v. the Netherlands, ECtHR, 18535/91, 27/10/1994
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1994

Legal impossibility for married woman to deny her husband's paternity of her child and thereby enable recognition by biological father - Violation of Article 8

Dissenting / Concurring: J.M. Morenilla, G. Mifsud Bonnici

B. v. France, ECtHR, 13343/87, 25/03/1992 [GC]
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1992

Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Non-recognition in law of the new sexual identity of a post-operative transsexual

Dissenting / Concurring: Russo / Bernhardt, Pekkanen, Morenilla, Baka / Matscher, Pinheiro Farinha, Pettiti, Valticos, Loizou, Morenilla / Walsh / Martens

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