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X. and Others v. Austria (Part II): A Narrow Ruling on a Narrow Issue

March 06, 2013

In this second post on the Grand Chamber judgment in X. and Others v. Austria, I will focus on the narrowness of it all: the narrowness of the issue before the Court, the narrowness of the ruling and the narrow approach the majority took to the European consensus. Although I believe the majority should be […]

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X. and Others v. Austria (Part I): Had the Woman Been a Man…

March 04, 2013

This guest post – the first in a two-post series on X. and Others v. Austria – was written by GrĂ©gor Puppinck* On the 19th of February, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights published its ruling in the case of X and others v. Austria (no. 19010/07), which decided by ten […]