Unmarried Partners in UK Law

  • Stack v Dowden
    • House of Lords
    • 25 Abril 2007
    ... ... "be based on evidence of express discussions between the partners, however imperfectly remembered and however imprecise their terms may have ... the House, whether the couple be married or, as in this case, unmarried. The principles of law are the same, whether or not the couple are ... ...
  • Fitzpatrick v Sterling Housing Association Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 28 Octubre 1999
    ... ... between the parties that the appellant and the deceased had been partners in a longstanding, close, loving and faithful, monogamous, homosexual ... Evenden [1953] 1 W.L.R. 1169 , the claimant was an unmarried woman who had lived with the deceased tenant for 12 years and had had two ... ...
  • Lowson v Coombes
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 Noviembre 1998
    ... ... 2 This is a dispute between an unmarried couple as to the beneficial ownership of a house in which they formerly ... Tinker in a case between unmarried partners where that presumption did not apply) ... 34 It is ... ...
  • An application by Siobhan McLaughlin for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland)
    • Supreme Court
    • 30 Agosto 2018
    ... ... support payment available to all bereaved spouses and civil partners irrespective of age. This is paid as an initial lump sum followed by ... of reform was consideration given to extending the scheme to unmarried partners. The Beveridge Report did briefly discuss “Unmarried person ... ...
  • Jacqueline Smith (Suing in her own Right and as the Surviving Partner of John Bulloch, Deceased) v Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 Noviembre 2017
    ... ... That status is not simply being unmarried, because that would not necessarily imply the existence of a relationship ... was that bereavement damages should be available to all surviving partners whether their loss was caused by the fault of a third party or not ... ...
  • Gow (Fc) Appellant Against Grant Respondent
    • Supreme Court (Scotland)
    • 04 Julio 2012
    ... ... to replicate the financial arrangements between spouses and civil partners, there was force in the argument that one cannot adopt the same approach ... upon the breakdown of a marriage: they would not impose upon unmarried couples the principle that marital assets should be fairly shared between ... ...
  • HRH Prince Abdulaziz Bin Mishal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Another v Apex Global Management Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 Junio 2013
    ... ... spouse of a member of the mission, any minor child or any other unmarried child who is a full-time student and any such other members of the ... — spouses (except common law spouses or same sex partners see paragraph 9); — dependent offspring under 18; ... ...
  • R Catherine Harvey v London Borough of Haringey
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 30 Octubre 2018
    ... ... Her evidence is that she lived with Mr Roe as his unmarried cohabiting partner from 1987, when they bought a house together, until his ... Unmarried persons who cohabit with partners who remained active members of the LGPS on or after 1 April 2008 ... ...
  • Secretary of State for Defence v Hopkins
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 20 Febrero 2004
    ... ... , an allowance may be awarded in respect of a wife or husband or unmarried dependant living as a spouse or adult dependant at a rate not exceeding ... Under the SPO unmarried partners have no substantive right to an Article 18(5) allowance unless the ... ...
  • James Jackson v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 07 Febrero 2020
    ... ... , in so far as it precludes any entitlement to WPA by a surviving unmarried partner of the deceased. (That shorthand declaration is not, with respect, ... construe either enactment as extending to cohabitees, non-civil partners, or any other relationship or status than that of spouse or civil partner ... ...
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