Schalk and Kopf v Austria (App 301414-04)

Final judgment of the ECHR sitting as a Chamber. Male couple complained that the legal impossibility of a same-sex couple marrying under Austrian law violated their right to respect for private and family life and the principle of non-discrimination. Held, rejecting the complaint, that there is no breach of Article 12 where marriage is available to two people of the opposite sex but not two people of the same sex.