same Sex Marriage in UK Law
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Rebecca Hannah Steinfeld and Another v The Secretary of State for Education
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There is no lack of respect afforded to any specific aspect of the Claimants' private or family life on account of their orientation as a heterosexual couple. Thus the statutory restrictions complained of do not impinge upon the core values under either limb of Art 8 to the degree necessary to entitle the Claimants to rely upon Art 14. The link between the measures complained of, and their right to enjoy their family and private life, is a tenuous one.
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Rebecca Hannah Steinfeld & Charles Robin Keidan v Secretary of State for Education
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In my view, at present, the Secretary of State's position is objectively justified. The future of the legal status of civil partnerships is an important matter of social policy that government is entitled to consider carefully. At the hearing the Secretary of State's approach was described as a "wait and see" approach, although it would be more accurate to describe it as a "wait and evaluate" approach.
Some couples in their position may suffer serious fiscal disadvantage if, for example, one of them dies before they can form a civil partnership. This is a factor in the proportionality balance, and because this is a case of differential treatment on the basis of sexual orientation, that balance must command anxious scrutiny.
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R (on the application of Steinfeld and Keiden) v Secretary of State for the International Development (in substitution for the Home Secretary and the Education Secretary)
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Before Andrews J and the Court of Appeal it had been submitted that an adverse effect in relation to article 8 had to be demonstrated in order for an avowed infringement to come within its scope or ambit. Counsel for the respondent did not seek so to argue before this court.
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M v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
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It is not difficult, when considering any provision of the Convention, including article 8 and article 1 of the First Protocol ("IFP"), to identify the core values which the provision is intended to protect. But the further a situation is removed from one infringing those core values, the weaker the connection becomes, until a point is reached when there is no meaningful connection at all.
So it may be that the United Kingdom legislation is more advanced than that of some of such other countries. But, on the face of it, a great change has taken place across Europe during the last five or so years, of which any Court considering the current scope of article 8(1) would take most careful account.
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J v S-T (Formerly J) (Transsexual: Ancillary Relief)
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It is suggested that the Act has made a subtle but perhaps important change to the terminology. What governed Ormrod J's decision in Corbett, based as it was on ecclesiastical principles, was whether the parties were 'a man and a woman.'
- Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013
- The Same Sex Marriage (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Regulations 2014
- The Civil Partnership, Marriage Between Persons of Different Sexes and Same Sex Marriage (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016
- The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 and Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014
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Love, Freedom and Governance: Same-Sex Marriage in Canada
Recent developments in Canadian marital jurisprudence require that we ask: what if love could be mobilized as a technology of power? In this article I propose such an analysis. I establish a recent...
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The future is queer kids: Queering the homonormative temporalities of same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage is emblematic of a crisis of vision in lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender non-binary, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) politics, according to some queer theorists. Through the c...
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Electoral paths and support for same-sex marriage legislation: Evidence from Taiwan’s mixed-member system
To what extent do electoral institutions influence positions on same-sex marriage? Debates over same-sex marriage legislation have increased globally for the past 20 years, yet little research focu...
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Polyamory, Social Conservatism and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate in the US
The arguments against same-sex marriage used by the Christian right and other social conservatives in the US have shifted in character. Drawing upon the work of Stanley Kurtz, they have increasingl...
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Is discrimination in respect of same-sex marriage ever permissible?
In Reverend Canon Pemberton v. Former Acting Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham, Canon Pemberton, a Church of England priest, entered into a same-sex marriage. The Church of En...
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