Corbett v Corbett (otherwise Ashley) (No.1)
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Judgment Date | 1970 |
Date | 1970 |
Year | 1970 |
Court | Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division |
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72 cases
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Hudson v Leigh (Note) [Family Division]
...in the terms sought by Mr Mostyn. Further, he relies on the findings of void marriages in Kassim v Kassim 1962 P 224 and in Corbett v Corbett (otherwise Ashley) 1971 P83, where the proper remedy was held to be a decree of nullity, with no option to make a declaration of a non-marriage. He a......
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FOY v an tARD-CHLARAITHEOIR & AG
...a marker of sex; (para. 121) 60 (b) The use by the Registrar General of the criteria identified in Corbett v. Corbett (orse. Ashley) [1970] 2 W.L.R. 1306 (Mr. Justice Ormrod) for the purposes of discharging his duty, was correct: such criteria consisting of the chromosomes, gonads and inter......
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Bellinger v Bellinger
...birth by reference to the congruence of chromosomal, genital and gonadal characteristics as set out in Corbett v Corbett (orse Ashley)ELR ([1971] P 83). Mr Justice Johnson so held in the Family Division on November 2, 2000 when dismissing the petition by Mrs Bellinger for a declaration that......
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The central mistake of sex discrimination law: the disaggregation of sex from gender.
...to declare a person's true sex. See, e.g., infra notes 167-203 and accompanying text (discussing at length the case of Corbett v. Corbett, 1971 P. 83 (1970), one of the most important cases in Anglo-American jurisprudence in which a court determined the meaning of a person's true sex in the......
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Sex Equality's Irreconcilable Differences.
...(212.) Id. at 224, 231. (213.) Id. at 231. (214.) In re Ladrach, 513 N.E.2d 828, 832 (Ohio Prob. Ct. 1987) (citing Corbett v. Corbett (1970) 2 All ER 33 at 48 (Eng.)); see also In re Estate of Gardiner, 42 P. 3d 120,124 (Kan. 2002) (affirming the lower court's ruling that a marriage between......
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Claimants
...was male or female for the purposes of Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 11(c), the test set out in Corbett v Corbett (Otherwise Ashley) [1971] P 83, still applied; and that any change in the law was a matter for Parliament, particularly as the government had already announced its intention to......
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Going Dutch? A Comparative Analysis and Assessment of the Gradual Recognition of Homosexuality with Respect to the Netherlands and England
...Communication from the Senior Parliamentary Legal Officer to Lord Lester of Herne Hill, letter dated 8 April 2002. 142. Corbett v Corbett [1971] P 83. 143. M. MacLeoud, chief executive of the National Family and Parenting Institute, (Daily Telegraph, 24.09.2000). 144. Section 6(1). 145. Sec......
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