What's Home Got To Do With It? Kinship, Space, and the Case of Family, Spouse and Civil Partnership in the UK
dc.contributor.author | Moran, Leslie | |
dc.date | 2021-11-25T13:35:08.000 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-26T11:54:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-26T11:54:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-01-07T08:31:55-08:00 | |
dc.identifier | yjlf/vol17/iss1/12 | |
dc.identifier.contextkey | 7992465 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/6920 | |
dc.description.abstract | The analysis that is offered in this Article has two dimensions. The first focuses upon the context in which the battle for legal recognition of same-sex partnerships has taken place. Using two key reported decisions from the U.K.'s final domestic court of appeal, Fitzpatrick v Sterling Housing and Ghaidan v Mendoza, the objective here is to explore the shifting terrain against which legal activism relating to the recognition of same-sex domestic relationships has achieved some success in the U.K. These two cases represent key developments in the judicial recognition of the rights of parties in same-sex domestic relationships. These cases have particular importance. In Fitzpatrick, the House of Lords decided that a same-sex couple's relationship fell within the meaning of "family." In Ghaidan the court decided that the term "spouse" was to be applied to same-sex couples. Some of the key legal effects | |
dc.title | What's Home Got To Do With It? Kinship, Space, and the Case of Family, Spouse and Civil Partnership in the UK | |
dc.source.journaltitle | Yale Journal of Law & Feminism | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-11-26T11:54:14Z | |
dc.identifier.legacycoverpage | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjlf/vol17/iss1/12 | |
dc.identifier.legacyfulltext | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1230&context=yjlf&unstamped=1 |