Rettificazione giudiziale di attribuzione di sesso - Possibilità subordinata alle intervenute modificazioni dei caratteri sessuali della persona istante - Conseguente necessità che quest'ultima si sottoponga previamente ai trattamenti medico-chirurgici necessari a modificare i propri caratteri sessuali primari
Violation of Article 8 (Respect for family life and private life) - Revocation of adoption while criminal proceedings for suspected child abuse were still pending - Failure adequately to investigate unauthorised disclosure of confidential information or to protect reputation and right to be presumed innocent of parent suspected of child abuse
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
Impossibilità di adozione coparentale in coppia omosessuale - Fallimento del Governo di fornire ragioni convincenti alla base dell'esclusione dell'adozione parentale in coppie omosessuali, concedendo la possibilità in coppie non sposate eterosessuali, ritenuto necessario per la protezione della famiglia nel senso tradizionale o la protezione dell'interesse superiore del minore, costituisce discriminazione
Dissenziente / Concorrente: Josep Casadevall, Ineta Ziemele, Anatoly Kovler, Danutė Jočienė, Ján Šikuta, Vincent A. De Gaetano, Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos / Dean Spielmann
Aborto e interruzione volontaria della gravidanza – Gestante minorenne – Richiesta di interruzione della gravidanza nei primi novanta giorni
Divieto di fecondazione in vitro viola il diritto alla vita privata e familiare, alla libertà ed integrità personale, e il diritto di non-discriminazione
Dissenziente / Concorrente: García-Sayán, Vio Grossi
Rifiuto dell'autorizzazione all'affidamento dei propri figli nei confronti di una madre in una relazione con un'altra donna - Violazione del diritto alla privacy ex Art. 11(2) della Convenzione americana - Il diritto alla privacy include la protezione delle relazioni intime
Dissenziente / Concorrente: Pérez Pérez
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
The applicant claimed she suffered inhumane and degrading treatment, negative impacts on her private and family life, and discrimination based on sex and ethnic origin due to the lack of effective anti-discrimination laws in Slovakia at the time of her sterilization - The Court held that the applicant's rights under Article 3 were violated, and that the State's failure to provide sufficient legal protections for the reproductive health of Roma women violated Article 8.
Violation of Article 8 (Disclosure of information by public hospital about a pregnant minor who was seeking an abortion after being raped; Medical authorities’ failure to provide timely and unhindered access to lawful abortion to a minor who had become pregnant as a result of rape) - Violation of Article 5 (Placement of pregnant minor in juvenile shelter to prevent her from seeking abortion following rape) - Violation of Article 3 (Harassment of minor by anti-abortion activists as a result of authorities’ actions after she had sought an abortion following rape)
Dissenziente / Concorrente: Vincent A. De Gaetano
The allegation of a Slovak woman of Roma ethnic origin that she had
been the victim of forced sterilisation - A violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) - A violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life)
Dissenziente / Concorrente: Ljiljana Mijović
Violation of Article 14 (discrimination) - Inability of father of a child born out of wedlock to obtain joint custody without the mother’s consent - The applicant had been treated differently from mothers or from married or divorced fathers in that he had required his former partner's consent to joint custody
Dissenziente / Concorrente: Bertram Schmitt
Rifiuto di rilascio dell'approvazione ai fini dell'adozione, sulla base dello stile di vita della ricorrente come donna lesbica convivente con altra donna - La Corte ha ritenuto che il riferimento all'omosessualità della ricorrente sia stato, se non esplicito, almeno implicito, che sia stata stabilita l'influenza della sua dichiarata omosessualità sulla valutazione del suo ricorso, e che la stessa abbia costituito un fattore decisivo nella decisione del rifiuto dell'autorizzazione ad adottare - Le autorità domestiche hanno operato una distinzione sulla base delle considerazioni concernenti l'orientamento sessuale, distinzione inaccettabile alla luce della Convenzione
Dissenziente / Concorrente: Jean-Paul Costa, Riza Türmen, Mindia Ugrekhelidze, Danutė Jočienė, Boštjan Zupančič, Loukis Loucaides, Antonella Mularoni / Peer Lorenzen, Sverre Erik Jebens
Violation of Article 14 (discrimination) - Placement of children with father, as the mother was a Jehovah’s Witness - The appeal court had treated the parents differently on the basis of the applicant’s religion, on the strength of a harsh analysis of the educational principles allegedly imposed by the religion
Dissenziente / Concorrente: W. Thomassen
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)