On 6 January 2022, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed down its decision in Lee v. The United Kingdom, in which it declared Mr Lee’s application inadmissible. This is the latest development in what has become known as the gay-marriage-cake case. For a summary of the background, the Supreme Court judgment and communicated case, see ‘Digesting the ‘Support Gay Marriage’ cake case: three years on’, and for a summary of the ECtHR decision, see ‘The last of the cake? The ECtHR decision in Lee v. The United Kingdom’.

Caroline K. Roberts