February might seem a strange month to make resolutions, but as Hannah Montague highlights, if there’s been major change in your life recently, it’s always the right time to put your affairs in order… Key life events can have a major impact on the validity and effectiveness of your final Read more…
Yesterday, The Supreme Court of England and Wales decided that it was inconsistent with The European Convention on Human Rights for heterosexual couples not to be given the same opportunity as same-sex couples to enter into a civil partnership. Civil partnerships were introduced in this country to address the discrimination Read more…
On 29th January 2016 the High Court rejected a case brought by a heterosexual couple to extend the availability of civil partnerships to opposite sex couples. Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan brought the proceedings as they want the legal protection offered by a civil partnership but they do not want Read more…
2015 marks 10 years of civil partnerships and 1 year of same sex marriage. Civil partnerships became law on 5th December 2005 in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Same sex marriage was introduced in England and Wales on 14th March 2014. The relevant statutes are the Civil Partnership Act Read more…
From 10th December 2014 same sex couples in a civil partnership will be able to convert this to a marriage. This announcement from Culture and Equalities Minister Sajid Javid was made on 26th June in Pink News (www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/06/26). Marriage for same sex couples was introduced on 29th March 2014 , Read more…