Grand Chamber – The applicants alleged that they had been discriminated against in comparison with different-sex couples, as second-parent adoption was legally impossible for a same-sex couple.
Held: An applicant is entitled to the reimbursement of costs and expenses in so far as it has been shown that these have been actually and necessarily incurred and are reasonable as to quantum
Judges:
Dean Spielmann, President
Citations:
19010/07 – HEJUD, [2013] ECHR 148, [2013] 1 FCR 387, (2013) 57 EHRR 14, [2013] Eq LR 396
Links:
Statutes:
European Convention on Human Rights 3
Cited by:
Judgment – X and Others v Austria (Summary) ECHR 19-Feb-2013
(Grand Chamber) Article 14
Discrimination
Impossibility of second-parent adoption in same-sex couple:
violation
Facts – The first and third applicants are two women living in a stable homosexual relationship. The second . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Human Rights, Discrimination, Adoption
Updated: 14 November 2022; Ref: scu.471039
