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Article 12 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides for the right to marry.

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Case law

• Limitations on marriage found permissible:
  • Schalk and Kopf vs. Austria (2010) — lack of recognition of same-sex marriages
  • Klip and Kruger v. Netherlands (1997) — measures against marriage of convenience
  • Rees v. UK (1986), Cossey v. UK (1990) — lack of opportunity to a transsexual to marry a person of now-opposite sex
• Limitations on marriage found impermissible:
  • F. v. Switzerland (1987) — ban of marriage before three years after divorce in which the applicant was found responsible
  • B. and L. v. UK (2005) — ban of marriage between a man and the former wife of his son during son's and son's mother's lifetime
  • Draper v. UK (1980) — lack of opportunity to marry for a prisoner
  • Christine Goodwin v. UK (2002) — lack of opportunity to a transsexual to marry a person of now-opposite sex, Rees overturned

Literature

Harris, David; O'Boyle, Michael; Warbrick, Colin (2009). Law of the European Convention on Human Rights (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 549–556. ISBN 978-0-40-690594-9. 

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