Strand Lobben and Others v. Norway, ECtHR, 37283/13, 10/09/2019 [GC]
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2019

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

V.D. and Others v. Russia, ECtHR, 72931/10, 09/04/2019
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2019

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

X v. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, ECtHR, 29683/16, 17/01/2019
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2019

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

Charron and Merle-Montet v. France , ECtHR, 22612/15, 16/01/2018
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2018

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

Honner v. France, ECtHR, 19511/16, 12/11/2020
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2018

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)

Nedescu v. Romania, ECtHR, 70035/10, 16/01/2018
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2018

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)