The Court held that the public administration had wrongly decided that it could not rule on the application to legally change name and sex, and had therefore denied the applicant’s right to dignity and free development of personality. According to the Court, Serbia failed to comply with its positive obligations under Article 8 of the European Convention.

Uz-3238/2011, Constitutional Court of Serbia (21 March 2012) (Full text of judgment in Serbian, PDF)

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