Having lived together with her mother, stepfather and halfbrother for many years, she wished to change her patronymic – the middle name derived from the father’s forename – from the name derived from her biological father’s name to one derived from her stepfather’s.
Although not suffering from any clinical illness, Alda Gross submits that she is over 80 and unwilling to continue suffering the decline of her physical and mental faculties.
The case concerns Harry Shindler’s complaint that he is no longer entitled to vote in parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom due to a 15-year time-limit under primary legislation after which British citizens residing overseas are not permitted to vote.
The case concerns a male-to-female transsexual’s complaint that full official recognition of her new gender was conditional on her marriage to a woman being turned into a civil partnership.
The European Court of Human Rights held in particular that Tymoshenko’s pre-trial detention had been arbitrary, that the lawfulness of her detention had not been properly reviewed and, that she had no possibility to seek compensation for her unlawful deprivation of liberty.
