Type: Order

Authority: National Courts: Merit's Courts (Italy) - Tribunale di Venezia

Date: 04/03/2009

Subject: The Court has raised the question of constitutional legitimacy with regard to certain articles of the Italian civil code which prohibit weddings between persons of the same sex, also in the light of the jurisprudence of the ECHR and of the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights

Parties: -

Original language: Italian

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 9 Right to marry - Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination

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