Refusal by domestic courts to legally establish the applicant's paternity with regard to his biological son, born from surrogacy carried out in France, after having been entrusted by the surrogate mother to a third-party couple - Violation of Article 8

Article 8 and Article 14 (+ Article 8) - Private life applicable - Lack of legal recognition of parenthood to intended mother with no biological ties to a child born through a gestational surrogacy arrangement abroad

Article 8 (Positive obligations) - Inability to obtain recognition of legal parent-child relationship between child and biological mother’s former female partner

Rejection of the applicant’s request for contact rights with her former spouse’s child, who had been conceived by medically assisted procreation - Violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life)

Adoption procedure initiated by the authorities in breach of the mother’s and her child’s right to respect for family life - Evaluation of the alleged mother's inability to fulfil her parental duties based on stereotyped assumptions concerning gender roles and her sexual life

Article 8 (Private life) - Collection of data on sexual behaviour of potential blood donor based on speculation, and excessive length of data retention by public body - Applicant deferred from blood donation on basis of law requiring contraindication for men who had had sexual intercourse with another man

Ineffective investigation into allegations of forced abortions and forced contraception after rape by a doctor in a neuropsychiatric residential asylum of three intellectually disabled applicants with legal capacity - Respondent State's failure to establish and apply effectively a system protecting intellectually disabled women in psychiatric institutions against serious breaches of their integrity - Inadequate criminal legislation and lack of mechanisms to prevent such abuse

Article 3 (procedural) - Failure to carry out effective investigation into alleged death threats against vulnerable rape victim by her abuser father, in breach of domestic law

Refusal to allow adoption of children born abroad via surrogacy by wife of their genetic father, despite no other possibilities of recognition of a legal parent-child relationship - No obstacles to enjoying family life by children born abroad via surrogacy and their genetic father’s wife, who was granted joint custody but not adoption

Article 8 (Private and family life) - Refusal of couple’s request for a self-funded second homologous in vitro fertilisation procedure, on the basis of the wife’s age, not in accordance with a law of sufficient quality

Applicability to “feminising” medical procedures carried out on an intersex person during childhood, without the person’s knowledge or consent - Limitation period invoked in response to a criminal complaint by an intersex person concerning feminising medical procedures carried out during childhood, where other remedies were still available - inadmissible

Disproportionate order by family court de facto preventing couple in stable relationship from living together to safeguard interests of child from mother’s previous marriage - Violation of Article 8

Father of child born out of wedlock unable to exercise parental responsibility without mother’s consent, in spite of parentage established by DNA test - Violation of Article 14

Cancellation without judicial review of the suspensive effect of fathers’ appeals, thereby enabling their children to leave the country with their mothers and removing the jurisdiction of the domestic courts 

Cancellation without judicial review of the suspensive effect of fathers’ appeals, thereby enabling their children to leave the country with their mothers and removing the jurisdiction of the domestic courts -Violation of Article 6.

Article 3 (substantive and procedural) - Abortion performed at a public hospital in breach of medical standards and against the will of a vulnerable young adult coerced by her parents

The applicants’ complaint about the way the second applicant’s birth certificate was set out after a second-parent adoption, and their allegation of discrimination in this respect against same-sex couples, relate to Articles 8 and 14 of the Convention - Inadmissible

Article 14 (+ Article 2) (Discrimination) - Homophobic motives underlying a murder not constituting a statutory aggravating factor and having no measurable effect on sentencing

Article 14 (+ Article 8 read in light of Article 9) - Revocable and reviewable order prohibiting a Jehovah’s Witness from actively involving his young child, brought up in Catholicism, in his religious practice - No violation

Article 8 (Private and family life/Positive obligations) Article 14 (+ Article 8) - Transgender person unable to obtain a full birth certificate without gender reassignment reference, while its short extract and new ID documents indicate only reassigned gender - Applicant not in analogous situation with adopted children who were issued a new birth certificate in the event of full adoption