Dudgeon v United Kingdom
Dudgeon v United Kingdom (1981) is a landmark European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) case, which held that Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, which criminalised male homosexual acts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, breached the defendant's rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The case was significant as the first successful case before the ECtHR on the criminalisation of male homosexuality; as the case which led to legislation in 1982 bringing the law on male homosexuality in Northern Ireland into line with that in Scotland (since 1980) and in England and Wales (since 1967); as a lead-in to Norris v.