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Dudgeon v. United Kingdom
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Dudgeon v. United Kingdom was a European Court of Human Rights case, similar to the U.S. cases of Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas.
Jeffrey Dudgeon was a shipping clerk and gay activist in Belfast, Northern Ireland, when he was interrogated by the Royal Ulster Constabulary about his sexual activities. He filed a complaint with the European Commission of Human Rights, which declared his complaint admissible to the European Court of Human Rights. On 22 October 1981, the Court agreed with the commission that Northern Ireland's criminalisation of homosexual acts between consenting adults was a violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, the ruling continued, "it was for countries to fix for themselves...any appropriate extension of the age of consent in relation to such conduct."
As a consequence, homosexual sex was decriminalised in Northern Ireland in 1982.
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