#Law & Religion UK » Feed Law & Religion UK » Comments Feed Law & Religion UK » same-sex marriage Tag Feed Law & Religion UK -- * Subscribe Tag Archives: same-sex marriage Post navigation -- Reply Reflections on a week in which the Lords debated assisted dying and chancel repairs, the C of E published a “programme for reform and renewal”, SCOTUS decided to hear argument on same-sex marriage – and a court took pity on a cleric faced with disqualification from driving… Reform and renewal in the C of E -- Due to the range and volume of material being issued in relation to the various Task Group reports, there was a daily release of key documents this week ahead of the general distribution of papers on Friday 16 January. These have included: Continue reading → Posted in assisted dying, Australia & New Zealand, chancel repairs, chattels, Church of England, discrimination, employment law, faculty jurisdiction, marriage, same-sex marriage, weekly roundup | Tagged assisted dying, Church of England, discrimination, employment, faculty Jurisdiction, marriage, same-sex marriage, Wales | Leave a reply Religion and Law round-up – 4th January -- In 1999 the common law offence of blasphemous libel was ruled to be incompatible with the Constitution’s guarantee of religious equality; but after a hiatus a new offence of “publication or utterance of blasphemous matter” was created by the Defamation Act 2009. The argument advanced by the Fianna Fáil Government was that it was necessary to have such an offence in order to fulfil the terms of Article 40.6.1°.i. To describe this as controversial would be a major understatement; and after the last general election, the incoming Fine Gael–Labour Coalition’s programme promised a Constitutional Convention to draft a range of reforms, including “Removing blasphemy from the Constitution”. Continue reading → Posted in abortion, Article 9 ECHR, assisted dying, blasphemy, civil partnership, CJEU, criminal law, ECHR, EU, faculty jurisdiction, Ireland, property, same-sex marriage, Scotland, weekly roundup | Tagged abortion, Article 9 ECHR, assisted dying, civil partnership, CJEU, criminal law, ECHR, faculty Jurisdiction, Ireland, property, same-sex marriage, Scotland | 2 Replies Law & Religion 2014 and 2015: retrospect and prospect – Part II -- The Supreme Court took precisely the opposite view. Continue reading → Posted in abortion, adoption, Article 9 ECHR, assisted dying, Church of England, civil partnership, employment law, Ireland, marriage, medicine & medical ethics, Northern Ireland, same-sex marriage | Tagged abortion, adoption, Article 9 ECHR, assisted dying, Church of England, civil partnership, conscientious objection, employment, Ireland, Northern Ireland, same-sex marriage | Leave a reply Religion and Law round-up – 21st December -- Reply “Participating” in abortion, marking time on humanist weddings, first same-sex marriage under Scots law – and a hitch in EU accession to the ECHR.. Abortion and conscientious objection -- On Thursday the Government published its response to the consultation: Marriages by non-religious belief organisations. In short, though ministers don’t seem to be against humanist marriages in principle, they reckon that the law in England and Wales on licensing buildings for the solemnisation of marriages is so complex that “it is necessary to carefully consider the legal and technical requirements concerning marriage ceremonies and registration and the range of relevant equality issues”. So they have asked the Law Commission to conduct “a broader review of the law concerning marriage ceremonies”. In short: nothing this side of the General Election. Continue reading → Posted in abortion, animal welfare, assisted dying, conscientious objection, ECHR, ECtHR, EU, EU Treaty of Fundamental Rights, marriage, medicine & medical ethics, same-sex marriage, Scotland, weekly roundup | Tagged abortion, assisted dying, Church of England, CJEU, ECHR, ECtHR, EU, EU Treaty of Fundamental Rights, Islam, Judaism, marriage, Roman Catholic Church, same-sex marriage, Scotland | Leave a reply Scottish Bishops on Marriage and Civil Partnership -- 5 Few outwith Scotland have commented on the guidance issued by the College of Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church in relation to the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014: the provisions that come into force 16 December 2014 will permit same-sex marriage ceremonies to take place after 31 December 2014, i.e. after the current 14-day period of notice[1]. The Act also allows for the possibility of civil partnerships being registered in the context of a religious ceremony. There has been strong condemnation in some quarters of approach taken by the Bishops’ document and Continue reading → Posted in marriage, same-sex marriage, Scotland | Tagged marriage, same-sex marriage, Scotland | 5 Replies Religion and Law round-up – 14th December -- “On 9 September the applicant wrote to The Law Society with questions concerning the recently published Sharia Succession Rules Practice Note (‘the Note’). He asked who the individual author(s) had been [and] whether any religious organisations or lobbyists had been consulted before the decision to publish the Note … The Society said that no ‘Sharia Law experts’ had been consulted and that no external individuals or organisations had lobbied the Society or been involved in drafting the Note” [our emphasis]. Continue reading → Posted in abortion, animal welfare, Article 9 ECHR, Church of England, constitution, Islam, Northern Ireland, same-sex marriage, sharia, weekly roundup | Tagged abortion, animal welfare, Article 9 ECHR, constitution, Islam, Northern Ireland, same-sex marriage, sharia | 1 Reply “Conversion Wednesday” – one week to go -- In contrast to the “Quiet Wednesday . . . antidote to Black Friday and Cyber Monday” planned for 10 December at St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow, register offices in England and Wales will be expecting a “Busy Wednesday” as couples in a civil partnership take this first opportunity for its conversion to a marriage. The secondary legislation necessary for this part of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 to come into force received parliamentary approval on 10 November, when the Minister for Skills and Equalities (Nick Boles) outlined the implications of these measures to the First Delegated Legislation Committee. Continue reading → Posted in Church of England, civil partnership, England & Wales, same-sex marriage, Scotland | Tagged Church of England, civil partnership, England & Wales, marriage, same-sex marriage, Scotland | Leave a reply Post navigation