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

Refusal of the authorities of the Ministry of Justice to bear the cost of the applicant’s gender reassignment despite medical evidence of urgently needed treatment

Article 14 taken in conjunction with Article 8 - Refusal to grant a paternity leave to the partner of the mother

Refusal of the French authorities to transcribe the Ukrainian birth certificates of surrogate-born children into the French register of births

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

Article 8 (Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Refusal to register same-sex marriages contracted abroad

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

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Different-sex couple denied access to registered partnership reserved exclusively for same-sex couples - No violation

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Difference in rights to retrospective survivor’s pension between same-sex couples and unmarried different-sex couples - No violation