Order to provide genetic sample in context of paternity proceedings - No violation
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Order to provide genetic sample in context of paternity proceedings - No violation
Articles 8, 13 and 14 - Absence of a procedure allowing intersex people to change their gender and name records according to their self-identification
Refusal to allow a deceased man’s sperm to be exported at the request of a parent wishing to become a grandparent or continue the family line - inadmissible
Article 14 (+ Article 3) (Discrimination) - Conviction for minor offence and EUR 40 fine for violent homophobic attack, without investigating hate motives, and subsequent discontinuance of criminal proceedings on ne bis in idem grounds
A transgender woman, claimed discrimination after being asked to leave a club in Turkey due to her gender identity - No violation of Article 8 (right to private life) in conjunction with Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination)
This case concerned the Norwegian authorities’ decision to remove a mother’s parental authority and let foster parents adopt her son - The applicants complained about the domestic authorities’ decision to remove the mother’s parental authority and let the child’s foster parents adopt him - Violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life)
Dissenting / Concurring: Jon Fridrik Kjølbro, Alena Poláčková, Pauliine Koskelo, Dag Bugge Nordén/Egidijus Kūris, Ranzoni, Yudkivska, Harutyunyan, Paczolay, Chanturia
Article 8 (Respect for family life) - Transfer of child back to biological parents after nine years in care of foster mother - Foster mother and children denied access to child following his transfer to biological parents after nine years in foster care
Article 8 (Respect for family life) - Temporary placement in children’s home due to parents’ refusal to send children to school - No violation
Article 8 (Respect for Private Life and Positive Obligations) - Unsuccessful attempt to change gender data in the birth register for over six years by a transgender person who had not yet undergone sex reassignment surgery
Dissenting / Concurring: Pejchal, Wojtyczek
Widow denied access to her children by relatives-in-law in defiance of court orders and later arbitrarily deprived of parental authority - Violation of Article 8
Article 11 (Freedom of association) Article 14 (Discrimination) - Refusal to register LGBT associations: violation - Refusal to register LGBT associations
Dissenting / Concurring: Keller, Serghides, Elósegui
Article 14 and Article 8 - Refusal to prosecute authors of serious homophobic comments on Facebook including undisguised calls for violence - Authorities’ failure to investigate effectively whether impugned comments constituted incitement to hatred and violence
Refusal by the domestic courts to grant the request by two women to delegate parental authority over their respective biological child to their partner - Manifestly ill-founded
A female married couple who had applied for medically assisted reproduction by means of artificial insemination - The application was rejected by a hospital on the grounds that “the Bioethics Law currently in force in France did not authorise such medical provision for same-sex couples” - inadmissible
Impossibility to contest the paternity of a child born during his marriage to the mother - Violation of Article 8
Erroneous prenatal diagnosis - Violation of Article 8
Dissenting / Concurring: Paul Lemmens
Courts’ refusal to grant contact rights or order legal parents to provide information about child’s personal circumstances to potential biological father - No violation
Refusal to award contact rights to the applicant in respect of the child which had been born to her former partner in Belgium using assisted reproductive techniques while the two women were a couple, despite the fact that the applicant had raised the child during his early years - No violation of Article 8 (right to respect for family life)
The case concerned the couple’s complaint that they had not been able to recover embryos that had been seized by the prosecuting authorities in 2009 and that they had been prevented from having another child - Violation of Article 8 (preventing the applicants from retrieving their embryos as ordered by the High Court of Cassation constituted an interference with their right to respect for their private life)
Legislation preventing health professionals assisting with home births - No violation