Lack of sufficient action to mitigate effects of climate change – complaints brought by a Swiss association of older women concerned about the consequences of global warming on their living conditions and health, as well as four individual women.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Rejection of the applicant’s civil action for judicial recognition of a deceased person as his father.
Judgment

Inability to contest the declaration of paternity in respect of a biological child and to establish own paternity.
Judgment

Withdrawal of the provision of a State-funded personal assistant for a physically disabled individual resulting in a severe loss of autonomy.
Judgment

Racial profiling during an identity check of a dark-skinned man at Zurich's main train station.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Refusal to register forename chosen by applicant for her newborn child.
Judgment

Eviction from State-owned apartment after lengthy lawful residency.
Judgment

Interception and disclosure of applicant’s emails in the context of a political party monitoring one of its members.
Judgment

Prohibition of abortion on grounds of foetal abnormality following amendments introduced by the Constitutional Court. Applicability and merits.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Automatic termination of the employment of a lay teacher of Orthodox religion at a secondary public school after the withdrawal of her endorsement by a local Archbishop.
Judgment

Reversal by the Supreme Court’s Chamber of Extraordinary Review and Public Affairs of a final civil defamation judgment in the applicant’s favour taken ten years earlier, following the Prosecutor General’s extraordinary appeal.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Termination of the terms of office of Constitutional Court judges and its President, all appointed with life tenure, through non-judicially reviewable amendments in the context of a constitutional reform. Applicability.
Decision | Legal Summary

Positive obligation to facilitate birth registration of, and the obtention of identity documents by, a vulnerable minor in the case of parental negligence.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Refusal of the domestic courts to examine the action of the applicant, claiming to be the biological father of a child, aiming to challenge the legally established paternity with a view to establishing his own.
Judgment

Unsuccessful attempt by a Latvian national to obtain the annulment of an Estonian court decision by which his biological son was adopted by the husband of the mother.
Judgment

Elapse of thirty-eight days before repatriation of the body of the applicant’s son, an Azerbaijani soldier, following his death during a shooting incident at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
Judgment

Placement of the applicant under guardianship, following a procedure which concluded that she suffered from a mental disorder hindering her legal capacity.
Judgment

Prohibition on posthumous assisted reproduction within the national territory and on export of gametes and embryos for that purpose to another country.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Alleged impossibility for a father, beneficiary of a witness protection programme, to exercise his visitation rights with his children. Applicability and merits.
Judgment

Refusal to allow persons born through medically assisted reproduction involving a third-party donor to access information about that donor, under the rule guaranteeing anonymity in gamete donations.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Contact rights between a child and his former stepfather. Applicability and merits.
Decision

Refusal to register details of a foreign birth certificate establishing a legal relationship between a child born through a surrogacy arrangement abroad and her biological father, as well as between the child and her intended mother.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Publication of sex workers' photographs, taken while in custody, on the Ministry of Interior’s website.
Judgment

Discrimination against a professional athlete who was required under non-State regulations to lower her natural testosterone level to compete in the women’s category in international competitions.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Legal-protection measure imposed on an elderly person and his placement in nursing home in social isolation for three years.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Refusal of family reunification requests, for not fulfilling financial independence requirement, of provisionally admitted refugees.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Processing of the applicant’s personal biometric data by using highly intrusive facial recognition technology in order to identify, locate and arrest him.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Inclusion of the applicant on the list of wanted persons and disclosure of information and photo at a police station’s premises.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Photographs and personal data of an accused published in the press for six months after charges brought, without her prior knowledge and consent.
Judgment

Annulment, at the author’s request, of the recognition of his paternity of a child born by medical assistance with gamete donation. 
Judgment

Domestic authorities’ failure to respond adequately to homophobic statements made by state officials against members of the LGBTI community. Applicability and merits.
Judgment

Refusal to issue a residence permit to an elderly alien, resident for more than 50 years in Switzerland, albeit unlawfully since 2002, on account of an unenforced decision to expel him after his convictions for serious criminal offences.
Judgment | Legal Summary

​Order for the eviction of a family from their home and for its demolition on the ground that it was an unauthorised construction built on State-owned land. 
Judgment

​Procedural status and rights of a biological parent in proceedings for the adoption of an adult.
Advisory Opinion | Legal Summary

​Court-ordered prohibition on contact between former foster parents and their foster child.
Judgment

​Removal of the applicant’s kidney in a public hospital without her informed consent and the concealment of this information by the doctors in the postoperative period.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Order for demolition of the applicant and her minor children's home on the grounds that it was unlawfully built.
Judgment

Absence of ex post facto judicial review of the manner in which Competition Council officials carried out the inspection of the applicant company’s office.
Judgment

Use in criminal proceedings against the applicant of recordings made without his knowledge by a co-accused.
Judgment

​Publication of applicant’s identifying data on tax authority website portal.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Refusal to replace the surname of the applicants with that of the first applicant’s mother.
Judgment 

​Expense cap for the care of a person with serious disabilities at home.
Decision | Legal Summary

Prohibition on the use of prefix “von” in applicants’ surnames.
Judgment | Legal Summary

​Refusal to return applicants’ two youngest children to their care.
Judgment

Dismissal of constitutional judges.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Use of GPS data on a medical representative’s company vehicle as grounds for dismissal. Applicability and merits.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Dismissal of a prosecutor and lifetime ban from re-entering the justice system. Applicability and merits.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Dismissal of a widow’s request to be fertilised with deceased husband’s frozen sperm, domestic law allowing such fertilisation only for couples and inter vivos.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Refusal to allow adoption of children born abroad via surrogacy by wife of their genetic father.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Prolonged inability to bring an action to establish paternity on the part of the biological father owing to the length of the proceedings to contest the paternity of the putative father.
Judgment | Legal Summary