Five Years of Civil Partnership: Time for an equal choice of marriage or civil partnership for all couples?

"Five Years of Civil Partnership: Time for an equal choice of marriage or civil partnership for all couples?" A news conference and debate in the Great Hall, Strand Campus, will mark the launch of legal action by the "Equal Love" campaign, on the 5th anniversary of the first civil partnership ceremonies in England and Wales. The "Equal Love" campaign seeks an end to the twin bans on marriage for same-sex couples, and civil partnership for different-sex couples. The debate will be chaired by Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC, whose private member's bill inspired the Civil Partnership Act 2004. Speakers, including Prof. Robert Wintemute of the School of Law, will address the implications of the campaign's proposals from the perspectives of human rights law and family law, and of religious institutions that do and do not wish to marry same-sex couples.

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