A case before the court was struck out at the request of both parties after the coming into force, in January 2001, of the Act which equalised the ages of consent for homosexual sexual acts and heterosexual sexual acts to 16. There was no longer any risk of discriminatory prosecutions.
Hudoc Judgment (Struck out of the list) Struck out of the list (solution of the matter)
Times 13-Apr-2001, 25186/94, [2001] ECHR 234
Worldlii, Bailii
Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000
Human Rights
Updated: 09 September 2021; Ref: scu.166071