Sentences with phrase «from civil partnership»

Gay marriage differs from a civil partnership in that civil partnerships are a legal relationship exclusively for same - sex couples, in this way they are distinct from marriage.

They are a state - recognised status for same sex couples, and the rights and responsibilities arising from a civil partnership are virtually identical to those of marriage, especially in terms of tax, and in terms of available remedies if the civil partnership breaks down.

The EAT accepted that the position of the two gay registrars was materially different to that of the claimant who sought to challenge the council's decision not to excuse her from civil partnership duties, whereas the two gay registrars were not seeking to be excused, but were complaining that it was discriminatory for the claimant to be exempted from performing such duties.

Even if marriage were no different from civil partnership (and it is), separate would not be equal.

Not exact matches

[6] «There is no legal requirement for a ceremony to make a civil marriage legal, and the law on civil partnerships (available from 5th December this year) mirrors civil marriage.

His barrister Sean Jones QC also said C of E clergy members in civil partnerships were allowed to officiate and that those were «effectively indistinguishable» from same - sex marriages.

Two people of the same sex, who are not already in a civil partnership, will be allowed to get married from December 31.

The advice issued by the House of Bishops at the time did not prevent clergy from entering civil partnerships, on the basis that the law did not specify the relationship as necessarily sexual.

Hot on the heels of this bombshell comes the news that religious buildings will be allowed - though not (yet) compelled - to host civil partnership ceremonies from this December.

If marriage and civil partnerships are all about commitment, as David Cameron insists, then there is no difference, apart from the sexual aspect, between the relationship of a same - sex couples and that of equally loving, cohabiting sisters.

Just a few weeks ago a Manchester man named Adrian Smith was demoted and docked almost half his salary for expressing, in a context entirely removed from his workplace, his opposition to religious buildings being usedfor civil partnerships.

He pointed out that clergy in faithful, same - sex relationships were not forbidden from entering into civil partnerships.

«Partnered clergy are unwilling to marry and those in civil partnership are reluctant to convert their CP to marriage fearing hostile action from their bishop.

Led by the World Resources Institute (WRI), the partnership includes representatives from the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with review and feedback provided by more than 200 additional stakeholders from business, government, civil society, and academia.

The CGIAR Research Program for Rice, known as the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP), is a partnership coordinated by six research - for - development organizations that bring together over 900 partners from the academic, public, private, and civil society sectors with a stake in the rice development sector.

The report calls for the creation of innovative public - private partnership arrangements, as well as partnerships involving different levels of government, civil society organizations, and donor organizations, in areas from crop technology to the provision of school feeding programs to help bring about sustainable food security throughout Asia.

Data from the Office of National Statistics shows that after five years, 5.5 percent of marriages had ended in divorce and 2.5 percent of civil partnerships had been dissolved.

The rule of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos seemed secure: the government had insulated itself from civil society groups working on human rights and governance issues, improved its relationships with business - hungry Western states, and deepened its strategic partnership with China.

But that is also true of parents who did not marry or enter into a civil partnership and to deny their children support on the grounds that their parents were unmarried is effectively disinheriting them from their parent's contributions.

If successful, her prayer would have made the section a dead letter, once again forbidding those denominations that were ready and willing to celebrate civil partnerships from doing so.

He was attacking a proposal from the Labour peer Lord Alli which would have allowed those religious denominations who so wished to celebrate civil partnerships on their premises.

[M] arriage has a character that is distinct from that of a civil partnership.

«It was petty and authoritarian to ban faith organisations like the Quakers from holding civil partnership ceremonies, when they clearly expressed a wish to do so.

Just as same - sex couples were barred from civil marriage, opposite - sex couples were (and still are) prohibited from having a civil partnership.

The total amount of untaxed inheritance for married couples and civil partnerships will be raised from # 300,000 to # 600,000.

The prime minister came under fire from the anti-gay marriage MP Tim Loughton after his amendment, which would have legalised civil partnerships for heterosexual couples, failed after the deal between Labour and the Tories.

The decision by the Labour leadership, which has gone from supporting the amendment on civil partnerships to rejecting it within the space of 24 hours, means that the marriage (same - sex couples) bill will now experience a safer journey through parliament.

Delighted to see that since the debate on my Private Members Bill on Friday the petition for equal civil partnerships has gone from 80,000 to over 100,000 now!

Such a move would make civil partnerships effectively indistinguishable from traditional weddings, given that parliament recently allowed for them to be held in churches and other places of worship when it amended the Equality Act.

Civil partnership differs from marriage.

Mr Brown released a statement to the gay community saying: «I'm very proud of all that this government has achieved on LGBT rights these last 12 years; from equalising the age of consent, lifting the ban on military service, introducing gay adoption and creating civil partnerships to scrapping section 28, introducing the Gender Recognition Act and banning discrimination at work and in the provision of goods and services.

Coalition plans to allow gay couples to conduct their civil partnership in religious buildings have met resistance from the Catholic Church.

The currencies of the international partnership, trade and aid are at risk unless we stand together, with one voice, and demand that these systemic issues be addressed,» he told the gathering of leaders from civil society organisations (CSOs), businesses, religious bodies and diplomats.

Fellow backbencher Sir Roger Gale offered a more measured reprimand, regaling that when serving on the Civil Partnerships Bill committee he had received cast iron assurances from — amongst others — the MP for Rhondda [Labour's Chris Bryant] that the passing of the bill would definitely not lead to full - blown marriage; not the last to subsequently question the government's «iron clad» assurances.

You can see that in our plans to promote civil partnerships and in all we have done to apologise for the mess of Section 28 [the law by the Thatcher government banning councils from «promoting» homosexuality].

And yet a coalition of conservative Christian groups continues to insist that this measure exposes them to litigation from those seeking to force them to hold civil partnerships against their will.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) welcomed the withdrawing of the motion but commented that the law in relation to civil partnerships and marriage remains «far from equal» and called for further reform.

Speaking to politics.co.uk, gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said opponents were trying to prevent religious officials from making their own decisions on civil partnerships.

More than four million married couples and people in 15,000 civil partnerships will be eligible for the Marriage Allowance from 6 April, the beginning of the next financial year.

None of the ideas or the policies he's put forward so far are leftist in tone (aside from that on gay adoption and «civil partnerships», perhaps).

The amendment would come into effect from 2015 and be available to all married couples or those in civil partnerships with at least one child living at home below the age of five, allowing the Chancellor to alter the age qualifications at subsequent Budgets.

Partnerships: Scientists Working With Human Rights Organizations Examples of collaborations between scientists from a variety of disciplines and human rights practitioners that cover economic, social, and cultural rights as well as civil and political rights.

With an annual value of around 100 M $ US, GRiSP strategizes and aligns the rice research for development agenda of a global partnership of over 900 partners worldwide from the governmental, nongovernmental, public, private, and civil society sectors.

The project will be delivered through a partnership between the WWA Initiative and CDKN, bringing together climate science, development, policy, planning and communications expertise across a range of academic, research, government, non-government and civil society organisations from developed and developing countries.

Order certificates online from the General Register Office It's quick and easy to order birth, marriage, civil partnership

Our view is that all service from April 1972 onwards for all marriages and civil partnerships should be counted automatically for survivor benefit service.

In CIF countries, non-government stakeholders from civil society, the private sector, and indigenous peoples and local communities are engaged through information sharing, consultations, and partnerships.

The project will be delivered through a partnership between the WWA Initiative and CDKN, bringing together climate science, development, policy, planning and communications expertise across a range of academic, research, government, non-government and civil society organisations from developed and developing countries.

Nigel Shepherd, chair of Resolution, said: «From a purely legal perspective, it makes little sense to retain civil partnership.

The UK was quite entitled to accord particular tax advantages to marriage and to civil partnership and to differentiate those categories from siblings or other people who cohabited.