Heterosexual couple to take civil partnership case to European Court of Human Rights
Civil Partnership Act challenge planned
The Islington Tribune reports that a Holloway couple, Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle, are planning to take Islington Council to the European Court of Human Rights after being turned down for a civil partnership on the grounds that they are “straight”. It says that they want to register a civil partnership because they do not want to be seen to be “colluding with the segregation that exists in matrimonial law between gay civil partnerships and straight civil marriage”.
The couple were refused a civil partnership at Islington registry office in November 2009. Now they are searching for other couples to back their stance as they prepare to take their case to the European Court of Human Rights.
Mr Freeman said:
“We’re looking for two gay couples and one straight couple who want the ceremonies they are not entitled to by law, and are prepared to join our legal battle, preferably in Islington.”
The report can be read here.
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