Toonen v. Australia

Comment:

Individual opinion submitted by Mr. Bertil Wennergren

Substantive issues:

• arbitrary / unlawful interference
• discrimination on other grounds
• discrimination on the ground of sex
• discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation
• equality before the law
• limitations of rights
• privacy
• restrictions of rights

Substantive articles:

• 2 (1)
• 17 (1)
• 26

Procedural issues:

• exhaustion of domestic remedies
• victim status

Procedural articles:

• 1
• 5 (2) (b)