Van Oosterwijck v Belgium: ECHR 6 Nov 1980

Hudoc Judgment (Preliminary objections) Preliminary objection allowed (non-exhaustion)
The refusal of Belgium to enable the registers of civil status to reflect lawful sex-changes violated the right to respect for private life in article 8.

Citations:

7654/76, [1980] ECHR 7

Links:

Worldlii, Bailii

Statutes:

European Convention on Human Rights 8

Cited by:

CitedA v West Yorkshire Police HL 6-May-2004
The claimant was a male to female trans-sexual who had been refused employment as a police officer by the respondent, who had said that the staturory requirement for males to search males and for females to search females would be impossible to . .
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Updated: 04 June 2022; Ref: scu.164900