In its judgment of 25 July 2017 (case Carvalho Pinto de Sousa Morais v. Portugal), the Court found that the applicant’s age and sex appeared to have been decisive factors in the Portuguese courts’ final decision on the compensation awarded for a medical error during a surgical procedure. The Court found that the decision of the Administrative Supreme Court (in January 2015) had been based on the assumption that sexuality was not as important for a 50-year-old woman and mother of two children as for someone of a younger age. In the Court’s view, those considerations show the prejudices prevailing in the judiciary in Portugal.
European Court of Human Rights – Factsheet on gender equality