Paposhvili v. Belgium
Quick answer In Paposhvili v. Belgium (Application no. 41738/10, Grand Chamber judgment of 13…
Article: Article 8 — Right to Private and Family Life
Key European Court of Human Rights cases decided under Article 8 — Right to Private and Family Life.
Rotaru v. Romania
Quick answer In Rotaru v. Romania (Application no. 28341/95, Grand Chamber judgment of 4…
Biao v. Denmark
Biao v. Denmark (GC, 2016): a family-reunification rule that indirectly discriminated on the basis…
Marckx v. Belgium
Marckx v. Belgium (1979): Belgian law discriminating against children born outside marriage violated Article…
Bărbulescu v. Romania
Bărbulescu v. Romania (GC, 2017): the domestic courts failed to protect an employee's private…
Von Hannover v. Germany
Von Hannover v. Germany (2004): publishing photographs of a public figure's private daily life,…
Osman v. the United Kingdom
Osman v. UK (1998): the leading case on the State's positive duty to protect…
Dudgeon v. the United Kingdom
Dudgeon v. UK (1981): criminalising consensual homosexual acts in Northern Ireland breached Article 8…
Golder v. the United Kingdom
Golder v. UK (1975): refusing a prisoner access to a solicitor breached Articles 6…
Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom
Big Brother Watch v. UK (GC, 2021): the UK bulk interception and communications-data regimes…