Litigation in the European Courts

Since 2000, an important part of ILGA-Europe's work has been to provide information about developments in international and comparative human rights law related to sexual orientation to the Council of Europe's European Court of Human Rights, by seeking the permission of the Court to submit written comments on these developments as a third-party intervener in selected cases that could establish a principle applying to all Council of Europe countries (47 as of August 2007).

ILGA-Europe often does so in collaboration with other non-governmental organisations. In 2007, ILGA-Europe participated for the first time in a case in the European Union's European Court of Justice, not through written observations (which were not procedurally possible), but through oral observations at the hearing.

European Court of Human Rights (Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France)

European Court of Justice (European Union, Luxembourg)

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination: the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice

Summary prepared for ILGA-Europe to submit to Mr. Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe

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Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Elapsed	Percent	Count	Average
ini_load
Load cache	0.0352 sec	7.0261%	10	0.0035 sec
Mysql Total
Mysql_queries	0.0283 sec	5.6458%	35	0.0008 sec
Looping result	0.0022 sec	0.4417%	28	0.0001 sec
Template Total	0.3303 sec	65.9%	1	0.3303 sec
Template load	0.0215 sec	4.2904%	1	0.0215 sec
Template processing	0.3084 sec	61.5791%	1	0.3084 sec
Template load and register function	0.0055 sec	1.0937%	6	0.0009 sec
override
Cache load	0.0206 sec	4.1039%	5	0.0041 sec
Matching rules	0.0038 sec	0.7619%	6	0.0006 sec
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0738 sec	14.7283%	6	0.0123 sec
General
String conversion	0.0004 sec	0.0785%	6	0.0001 sec
Total script time:	0.5008 sec

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