Same-sex marriage recognition ruling [UK HC]

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Same-sex marriage recognition ruling [UK HC]

July 31, 2006 10:43:00 pm

Wilkinson v Kitzinger & Ors [2006] EWHC 2022 (Fam), July 31, 2006 [denying a bid by a British lesbian couple married in Canada to have their marriage recognized by British law, saying that the traditional British definition of marriage refers only to a union between a man and a woman with the purpose of reproduction]. Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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