Start your free trial Good news you can now marry your mother in law What would Les Dawson have said? -- WHAT would Les Dawson have said? The European Court of Human Rights has held that one may marry one’s mother (actually father)-in-law, thereby removing the remnants of the ban imposed by Henry VIII. The Strasbourg decision results from Article 12 of the Convention on Human Rights that -- by? When “L” and “B”, L’s former daughter-in-law, attempted to give notice of marriage at Warrington Register Office, the superintendent registrar must have congratulated himself on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to