Article 14 (Discrimination) - Refusal to include woman registered as the mother’s civil partner on child’s birth certificate - Inadmissible

The applicant had her pregnancy terminated due to the fetus being diagnosed with hydrocephalus - Following complications from the treatment to induce abortion, her doctor had to remove her uterus and ovaries to save her life, leaving her permanently unable to bear children -  The Court concluded that the applicant's right to private life was infringed by not involving her in the choice of medical treatment or informing her of the risks, and the State failed to provide a system for redress, thus violating Article 8

An allegation by the applicant, who claimed to be homosexual, that he would be at risk of ill-treatment if he were to be returned to Sierra Leone - Inadmissible 

Article 8 (Positive obligations/Respect for family life/Respect for private life) - Lack of legal recognition of same-sex partnerships

Article 8 (Respect for family life) - Failure to execute a judgment confirming an order to return underage children to their mother in the United Kingdom

Excessively formalistic interpretation of domestic law as regards paid maternity leave for adoptive mother - Violation of Article 14

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Exclusion of same-sex couples from “civil unions”

Total removal of applicant’s access rights on account of his attempts to transmit his religious beliefs to his child - Violation of Article 14

Impossibility of second-parent adoption in a same-sex couple - Government's failure to provide convincing reasons for the exclusion second-parent adoption in a same-sex couple, while allowing that possibility in an unmarried different-sex couple, deemed necessary for the protection of the family in the traditional sense or for the protection of the interests of the child, amounts to discrimination

Article 8 (Family life) - Failure to conduct detailed examination of all relevant points when deciding whether to return a child pursuant to Hague Convention

Continuing failure to provide information concerning fate of newborn baby in hospital care - Violation of Article 8 (Positive obligations/Respect for family life)

The German courts’ refusal to allow a man to challenge another man’s paternity - No violation

Article 14 (Discrimination) - Ineffective investigation into possible racist motivation for ill-treatment allegedly suffered by Nigerian prostitute

Sterilisation without permission and the low amount of compensation - Violation of Article 8

Refusal of simple adoption order in favour of homosexual partner of biological mother - No violation of Article 14

Article 3 (+ Article 14) - Discrimination - Failure to conduct effective investigation into whether assault by private party was a hate crime motivated by homophobia

Inability of child abandoned at birth to gain access to non-identifying information or to make request for mother to waive confidentiality - Violation of Article 8

Refusal of permission to adopt owing to prohibition of adoption in child’s country of birth - No violation of Article 8

Violation of Article 3 (treatment and investigation) and Article 8 - The case concerned three women of Roma origin who complained in particular that they had been sterilised without their full and informed consent, that the authorities’ ensuing investigation into their sterilisation had not been thorough, fair or effective and that their ethnic origin had played a decisive role in their sterilisation

A Moldovan national alleged that, at the age of fourteen, she was raped by an acquaintance, she complained that the authorities had not investigated her allegations effectively and that the requirement of corroborative evidence of resistance had been discriminatory against her - Violation of Article 3 (investigation)