Heterosexual couples in England and Wales are to be given the right to enter into civil partnerships, the government has announced. Prime Minister Theresa May said that the legal union would not ...

Civil partnerships were introduced in the UK back in 2005, before marriage was made available for same-sex and LGBTQ+ couples (which happened in England, Wales, and Scotland in 2014, and in Northern ...

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University of Lancashire provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Heterosexual couples in England and Wales will soon be allowed to enter into civil partnerships, formerly reserved for ...

Straight couple Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan have won their legal bid for the right to have a civil partnership instead of a marriage. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favour of the pair ...

This morning Theresa May announced that all couples in England and Wales will soon have the option of a civil partnership as well as marriage. Currently, same-sex couples have the choice to enter into ...

A British heterosexual couple who objected to the “patriarchal” institution of marriage have won a legal claim for discrimination because civil partnerships are only available to same-sex couples. The ...

ON JUNE 27TH Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan (pictured) emerged triumphant from the British Supreme Court. The judges had ruled that it was discriminatory for British law to deny a heterosexual ...

Marriage isn't for everyone. But, even if you don't want to be united in wedlock, it doesn't necessarily mean you don't want the legal security that comes with partnership. Now, mixed-sex couples in ...

On Wednesday, Britain's Supreme Court unanimously ruled that heterosexual couples should not be banned from entering civil partnerships and that making them only available to same-sex couples is ...