e/Dudgeon v United Kingdom

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has gloss	eng: Dudgeon v. the United Kingdom was a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) case, which held that legislation passed in the nineteenth century to criminalise male homosexual acts in England, Wales and Ireland - in 1980, still in force in Northern Ireland - violated the European Convention on Human Rights. The case was significant, 1) as the first successful case before the ECHR on the criminalisation of male homosexuality; 2) as the case which, in 1982, made the law on male homosexuality in Northern Ireland the same as it was in Scotland (since 1980) and in England and Wales (since 1967); 3) as a lead-in to Norris v. Ireland, a later case before the ECHR argued by Mary Robinson, which challenged the continued application of the same nineteenth century law in the Republic of Ireland; and, 4) for setting the legal precedent that ultimately resulted in the Council of Europe requiring that no member state could criminalise male or female homosexual behaviour.
lexicalization	eng: Dudgeon v United Kingdom
lexicalization	eng: Dudgeon v. United Kingdom
instance of	c/European Court of Human Rights cases involving the United Kingdom