Family abuse – Family abuse is not committed in the case of a recently started relationship and occasional cohabitation

Attempted sexual violence - Relationship between the offence of persecutory acts and attempted aggravated murder - Circumstances such as to provoke a persistent state of anxiety in the victim and fear for her own safety and her relatives and cohabitants’ one, thus affecting her modus vivendi and the overall psychological state

Sexual violence - Bottom groping – Sexual violence is committed also in the case of insidiously rapid performance of the criminal action such as to surprise the victim and overcome her contrary will, thus making it impossible for her to defend herself

Sexual violence and family abuse - Absorption of the offence of family abuse from the offence of sexual violence only when there is a full coincidence between the conduct, meaning that the damaging acts are exclusively aimed at and instrumental to the sexual violence

Sexual violence criminal offence - Failure to object to sexual intercourse with the spouse, during cohabitation, does not constitute an attenuating circumstance if it is proved that the offended party has suffered such intercourse as a result of the violence and threats repeatedly made against her

Arbitrary arrest, rape and verbal abuse of a gay, currently trans, man by police officers during detention because of her sexual orientation – Discriminatory torture on the basis of sexual orientation – Violation of the rights to personal liberty, personal integrity, privacy, judicial guarantees and the judicial protection

Student repeatedly sexually abused by her public school's vice principal - Being pressured by the abuser to have an abortion, she committed suicide - Violation of the right to life, personal integrity, private life, dignity, education, health and to be free from gender violence and discrimination - State's obligation to adopt structural measures to address sexual violence in the school environment, including a policy to provide access to sex and reproductive education

Article 4 (Positive obligations/Effective investigation/Trafficking in human beings) - Failure to hold effective investigation into allegation of human trafficking and exploitation of prostitution

Article 3 (procedural and substantive) - Ineffective investigation into arguable allegations of ill-treatment by police officers - Allegations not proved “beyond reasonable doubt”, partly due to investigation shortcomings

Sexual violence criminal offence - Sexual violence committed by a doctor against a young patient - Applicability of the aggravating circumstance of abuse of authority

Alternative medicine practitioner, osteopathy - Patient's consent required if medical treatment is invasive of the sexual sphere - Sexual violence committed where the patient has not been informed in advance

The offence of sexual violence is committed in the case of a forced kiss on the lips - Qualification of the kiss on the mouth as a ‘sexual act’ even in the case of mere lip contact - Kissing as an act of erotic value

Gang rape - The offence of gang rape is committed even if not all members of the group commit acts of sexual violence - The prior agreement of the participants is not required in gang rape offence

Sexual violence criminal offence - Possibility of deeming ‘unconventional’ sexual acts to be lawful insofar as they take place with the consent of the participants throughout their duration

The offence of sexual violence is committed in the case of sudden embrace involving physical contact between the bodies, including the genitals, and lateral touching of the breasts - Offence of sexual violence and mitigating circumstances - Inability to counter

Sexual violence and the hypothesis of lesser seriousness – Psychophysical consequences suffered by the victim judged to be of such a magnitude that the act cannot be considered less serious

Any form of psycho-physical coercion capable of affecting the freedom of people’s self-determination is sufficient for the offence of sexual violence to be committed - Cultural differences are irrelevant in offences against fundamental human rights

The offence of sexual violence is committed in the case of a slap on the bottom - Sexual act capable of embodying sexual pleasure or arousing the stimulus thereof

Sexual violence criminal offence - Foreigner accused of a crime against the person or the family – Defendant’s cultural and religious differences are in no way justifications

Attempted act of same-sex indecency committed by a civil servant on male minors — Disciplinary sanction adopted in 1975, compulsory early retirement accompanied by a reduction in the pension entitlement — Discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, effects of the application of Directive 2000/78/EC on the disciplinary sanction, calculation of the retirement pension paid