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

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

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

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

Article 8 (Respect for private life) - Refusal by the authorities to authorise a change of forename prior to the completion of gender reassignment surgery

Article 2 (substantive and procedual) - Acid attack on a woman in the street - Court having regard to general situation of violence against women in Albania

Ban on adoption of Russian children by US nationals - Violation of Article 14

Article 8 (Positive obligations and Respect for private life) - Legal requirements for rectification of civil status for transgender persons

Article 8 (Respect for family life) -Temporary placement of children in care owing to family’s lack of means and parental neglect - No violation

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)

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