Why is the 2nd December 2019 significant? Well, on the 15th March 2019 the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Bill completed its passage through the Houses of Parliament. The Bill received Royal Assent on 26th March 2019 and came into force on 26th May 2019. The reason the 2nd December is relevant to […]
In June, the Supreme Court ruled that denying heterosexual couples the right to have a Civil Partnership was inherently discriminatory. Hot on the heels of this judgement, The Prime Minister recently announced her government’s intentions to make it possible for heterosexual couples to enter into Civil Partnerships, rather than get married. Would this be an […]
Charles Keidan and Rebecca Steinfeld have challenged the Civil Partnership Act 2004 which states that “two people are not eligible to register as civil partners of each other if… they are not of the same sex“. Charles and Rebecca did not want to get “married” but there was no other option, and they believed this […]