B.V. v. Belgium, ECtHR, 61030/08, 02/05/2017
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2017

The investigation carried out by the Belgian authorities after the applicant had lodged a criminal complaint alleging rape and indecent assault - A violation of the procedural aspect of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment)

Bayev and Others v. Russia, ECtHR, 67667/09, 44092/12, 56717/12, 20/06/2017
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2017

Article 10 (Freedom of expression) Article 14 (Discrimination) - Legislative prohibition on the promotion of homosexuality among minors reinforcing stigma and prejudice and encouraging homophobia - Unjustified difference in treatment between heterosexual majority and homosexual minority

Dissenting / Concurring: Dedov

Lashmankin and Others v. Russia, ECtHR, 57818/09 + other 14, 07/02/2017
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2017

Article 11 (Freedom of peaceful assembly) Article 13 (Effective remedy) - Arbitrary and discriminatory power of authorities to propose changes in location, time or manner of conduct of a public event - Lack of effective remedy allowing an enforceable judicial decision against authorities’ refusal to approve the location, time or manner of conduct of a public event before its planned date

Paradiso and Campanelli v. Italy, ECtHR, 25358/12, 24/01/2017 [GC]
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2017

Article 8 - The case concerned applicants who, acting outside any standard adoption procedure, had brought to Italy from abroad a child who had no biological tie with either parent, and who had been conceived, according to the domestic courts, through assisted reproduction techniques that were unlawful under Italian law

Dissenting / Concurring: Raimondi, Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska, Ledi Bianku, Julia Laffranque, Paul Lemmens, Yonko Grozev

Foulon and Bouvet v. France, ECtHR, 9063/14, 10410/14, 21/07/2016
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2016

Refusal by French authorities to transcribe the birth certificates of children born under surrogacy agreements in India violated the children's right to respect for private life under Article 8