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Norway

Supreme Court

judgment | 29.03.2012 (asylum – no need to hide sexual orientation

dot Austria

Constitutional Court

more2 PDF judgment G 230/2021 | 30.06.2022 (restriction of automatic co-parenthood and motherhood-recognition in female same-gender couples to medically assisted insemination)
more2 PDF judgment G 30/2022 | 18.06.2022 (foreign bans of joint adoption by same-gender couples violate Austrian ordre public) (litigated by ECSOL-member Helmut Graupner)
more2 PDF judgment G 247/2021 | 06.12.2021 (ban on joint adoption by unmarried and unregistered couples) (litigated by ECSOL-member Helmut Graupner)
more2 PDF judgment G 69/2018 | 03.10.2018 (second parent adoption after dissolution of cohabitation of same-gender couple)
more2 PDF judgment G 77/2018 | 15.06.2018 (third gender) (litigated by ECSOL-member Helmut Graupner)
more2 PDF judgment G 258/2017 | 04.12.2017 (same-sex marriage) (litigated by ECSOL-member Helmut Graupner), unofficial translation into English
more2 PDF judgment G 119/-120/2014 | 11.12.2014 (ban on joint adoption by same-sex couples) (litigated by ECSOL-member Helmut Graupner)
more2 PDF judgment G 16/13, G 44/13 | 10.12.2013 (ban on medically assisted procreation for lesbian couples) (litigated by ECSOL-member Helmut Graupner)
more2 PDF judgment G 18, 19/13 | 19.06.2013 (office-room-compulsion for performing of registered partnerships) (litigated by ECSOL-member Helmut Graupner)
more2 PDF decision B 121/11, B 137/11 | 12.12.2012 (same ceremony for marriage and registered partnerships) (litigated by ECSOL-member Helmut Graupner)
PDF judgment G 131/11 | 03.03.2012 (discriminatory acquisition of the partner’s name: spouses at any time, registered partners only at registration) (litigated by ECSOL-member Helmut Graupner)
PDF decision B 518/11 | 22.09.2011 (discriminatory construction of double-names: spouses with a hyphen, registered partners without) (litigated by ECSOL-member Helmut Graupner)


Supreme Administrative Court of Austria

PDF judgment 2010/17/0042 | 29.11.2010 (forced outing of transsexuals by marriage certificates) (litigated by ECSOL-member Helmut Graupner)
PDF judgment 2009/17/0263 | 17.02.2010 (change of legal sex without genital surgery) (litigated by ECSOL-member Helmut Graupner)
PDF judgment 2008/06/0032 | 15.09.2009 (change of legal sex without genital surgery) (litigated by ECSOL-member Helmut Graupner)
judgment 2008/17/0054 | 27.02.2009 (change of legal sex without genital surgery) (litigated by ECSOL-member Helmut Graupner)


Supreme Court

PDF judgment 12 Os 90/13x | 23.01.2014 (homosexuality and homosexual acts not dishonorable anymore)
PDF decision 3 Ob 224/12f | 19.12.2012 (statutory ban on medically assisted procreation for lesbian couples) (litigated by ECSOL-member Helmut Graupner)
PDF decision 3 Ob 147/10d | 22.03.2011 (statutory ban on medically assisted procreation for lesbian couples) (litigated by ECSOL-member Helmut Graupner)

Czech Republic

 Constitutional Court

judgment | 28.06.2016 (right of registered partners to individual adoption) (litigated by ECSOL-member Petr Kalla)

France

Cour de Cassation

judgment | 08.07.2010 (recognition of foreign stepparent-adoption in a lesbian couple)

dot Germany

Federal Constitutional Court ("Bundesverfassungsgericht")

 German Federal Constitutional Court, Decision | 10.10.2017 ("third gender")

 

Supreme Court ("Bundesgerichtshof")

 German Supreme Court, Decision | 20.04.2016 (recognition of co-motherhood after artificial insemination abroad)

 German Supreme Court, Decision | 10.12.2014 (recognition of same-sex parents after surrogacy abroad)

Italy

Supreme Court

 Sentenza N. 19599 | 30.06.2016 (recognition of spanish birth certificate mentioning two mothers)
Ordinanza no 15981/2012 | 29.09.2012 (total ban of homosexual acts is a valid ground for asylum)

 United Kingdom

 Supreme Court

judgment | 27.06.2018 (registered partnership - exclusion of opposite-gender couples)