same Sex Marriage in UK Law

  • Wilkinson v Kitzinger and Another (Same-sex marriage)
    • Family Division
    • 31 Julio 2006
  • Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Junio 2004
    ... ... But marriage is not essential for this purpose. A person who was living with the ... Lordships' House decided this provision did not include persons in a same-sex relationship. The question raised by this appeal is whether this ... ...
  • The Reverend Canon Jeremy Pemberton v The Right Reverend Richard Inwood, Former Acting Bishop of Soutwell and Nottingham
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 Marzo 2018
    ... ... of England who in April 2014, following the enactment of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, married his same sex partner. As a result, on ... ...
  • Fitzpatrick v Sterling Housing Association Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 28 Octubre 1999
    ... ... considerable sympathy and understanding of the position in which same-sex partners living together found themselves under the legislation as ... which is not merely transient and which has all the indicia of a marriage save that the parties cannot have children. In the second place he says ... ...
  • M v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
    • House of Lords
    • 08 Marzo 2006
    ... ... between a man and a woman which was not sanctified by marriage or at least regularised by civil ceremony, and homosexual relationships ... from a corresponding non-resident parent living with a person of the same sex. Hence this claim for unlawful discrimination ... 8 After ... ...
  • Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 Noviembre 2002
    ... ... The House held that although a person who had been in a same-sex relationship with a deceased tenant could qualify as a member of the ... the traditional (whether religious or social) concept of marriage and the family. It does nothing of the sort. It merely recognises that, ... ...
  • An application by Siobhan McLaughlin for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland)
    • Supreme Court
    • 30 Agosto 2018
    ... ... classes the reality — was that women would not work after marriage, so that for them the loss of a breadwinning husband was the equivalent of ... which the surviving spouse or civil partner and a person of the same sex who is not his or her civil partner are living together as if they ... ...
  • Bellinger v Bellinger
    • House of Lords
    • 10 Abril 2003
    ... ... On 2 May 1981 Mr and Mrs Bellinger went through a ceremony of marriage to each other. Section 1(c) of the Nullity of Marriage Act 1971, ... majority of cases these indicia in an individual all point in the same direction. There is no difficulty in assigning male or female gender to ... ...
  • Attorney General for Bermuda v Roderick Ferguson and Others
    • Privy Council
    • 14 Marzo 2022
    ... ... 1 This appeal is about whether the law of Bermuda recognises same-sex marriage. Section 53 of the Domestic Partnership Act 2018 of ... ...
  • R (on the application of Quila and Another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [Sup Ct]
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 Octubre 2011
    ... ... the spouse of a person who is present and settled in the UK ("a marriage visa") ... 2 The Secretary of State appeals against the order of ... é(e) or proposed civil partner" (rule 289AA) and "an unmarried or same-sex partner" (rule 295AA) ... 4 A ... ...
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