Right to Marry in UK Law
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Adoption, Homosexuality and the European Convention on Human Rights: Gas and Dubois v France
On 15 March 2012 the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) issued its first judgment addressing the differential treatment of same‐sex and opposite‐sex couples in respect of the adoption of a ...... ... excluding same-sex couples in civil partnerships, who have no legal right to marry,from adoption provisions available to married opposite-sex ... ...
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Anti-Trafficking (ILL-)Efforts
Global imaginations on human trafficking have been captured by a robust mythology that constructs the consenting Third World sex worker as simply a victim of trafficking for sexual exploitation. Th...... ... of abuse against sex workers and has denied Cambodian women their right to marry foreign men. Despite evidence indicating the diversity of the sex ... ...
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The Right to a Privilege? Homonormativity and the Recognition of Same-Sex Couples in Europe
The Council of Europe (CoE) and its judicial body, the European Court of Human Rights, are at the forefront of the debate for the redefinition of the notion of ‘family’ in relation to the inclusion...... ... This much-anticipateddevelopment, nonetheless, begs the question of how the ‘right to marry and found afamily’ might prove to be a privilege rather than a right. This article tries to shed lighton the contradictions underpinning the ... ...
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Assaulting our rights: how domestic violence laws curtail our fundamental freedoms
The Violence Against Women Act was enacted in the United States in 1994. Fifteen years later, it has become apparent that the law has given rise to numerous violations of fundamental civil rights. ...... ... , protection from governmental intrusion, due process, freedom to marry and the right to privacy in family matters, right to parent one’s own ... ...
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Can a Marriage Be Delayed in the Public Interest So as to Maintain the Compellability of a Prosecution Witness?: R (on the Application of the Crown Prosecution Service) v Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages
... ... She also indicated her intention to marry J, a decision that had been made ‘prior to these events ... Secondly, ‘the right to marry has always been a right recognised 2 [2002] EWCA ... ...
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Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the European Union: The Framework Directive and the Continuing Influence of the European Parliament
This article examines the effectiveness of sexual orientation discrimination laws prescribed by the European Union. In particular, the article critiques Article 13 of the Treaty Establishing the Eu...... ... Report caused much controversy, deeply dividing left and right wing factions of the Parliament. Right wing politicians expressed ... Yet not being able to marry places gay men and lesbians, indirectly, at a disadvantage in ... ...
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Overview of Recent Cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice, and of Legislative and Policy Developments (May–July 2010)
... ... HuMAN RIGHTS ... 1.1. SAME-SEX CouPLES AND THE RIGHT To MARRy ... Schalk ... ...
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‘Dogs Are “Registered”, People
Shouldn’t Be’: Legal Consciousness and Lesbian and Gay Rights
In this article I examine lesbians’ and gay men’s attitudes towards the legal recognition of same-sex relationships, using the theoretical framework of legal conscio...... ... understandings of juridical power, where ‘power is taken to be a right, which one is able to possess like a commodity’ (Foucault, 1980: 88). By ... reflects society, then by saying it’ s legal for gay couples to marry makes it ‘socially acceptable’ in turn. (Fingers crossed.) (R1494) ... ...
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An overnight success a decade in the making
On 30 June 2016, the European Court of Human Rights (hereafter ‘European Court’) decided that a binational same-sex couple was discriminated against because they were not allowed to marry; and at t...... ... couple was discriminated against because they were not allowed to marry; and at the same time, they were unable to live in Italy as a couple. For ... -sex sexual acts in Northern Ireland were in violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) in conjunction with Article 14 ... ...
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Book Reviews
... ... of the focuses of legal battles over the years alongside that of the right to marry as a person of the ‘new’ sex. These are what Whittle here ... ...
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