Sentences with phrase «which legalised»

Presently the law in the UK doesn't allow opposite - sex couples to enter into civil partnerships in the same way same - sex couples can, which has resulted in many couples travelling to the Isle of Man, which legalised opposite - sex civil partnerships last summer.

We also believe that there is an urgent need for Parliament to legislate on the matter, and to introduce a law which legalises assisted dying while also imposing safeguards to protect the vulnerable.»

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The companies would be the first virtual currency firms to operate in the Philippines after regulators legalised their entry into an economic zone in February, in contrast to neighbouring countries which have not allowed such entities.

The Scottish Parliament is considering a bill which would legalise those with a «life - limiting condition» having assistance in killing themselves.

is the best remembered part of his pre-election period, the only part of his recent Conservative Party Conference address which remains in the public consciousness is his unequivocal call to legalise homosexual «marriage»: «I don't support gay marriage despite being a Conservative.

What would you legalise?I think looking at some of the Australian experiments, which introduced very controlled and taxed legalisation of prostitution, and a limited trial of legalising heroin to take the criminality out of it.

This tallies with an Ipsos Mori poll for the Transform Drugs Policy Foundation late last year which showed 53 % of the public want cannabis legalised or decriminalised and 67 % want a review of Britain's approach to drugs.

The US Supreme Court's decision in Windsor v. US, in June 2013, holding that denial of federal tax benefits to same - sex widow Edith Windsor, which she would have received if her spouse had been male, was unconstitutional, has speeded up the process of legalising same - sex marriage in New Jersey, and may do so in other US states as well.

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.

But the organisation, which noted that it was during Fayemi's tenure that life pension for ex-governors was legalised in Ekiti State, said it owed Fayemi no apology, while describing his threatened lawsuit as an effort to undermine legitimate efforts to promote transparency.

Clear, a political party which campaigns for the legalised use of medicinal cannabis, is following the advert with a crowdfunding appeal seeking to raise money for a longer campaign.

The government's plans to legalise gay marriage returned to the spotlight, with Cardinal Keith O'Brien, head of the Catholic Church in Scotland, comparing the plans to «slavery», which his church was thoroughly opposed to, of course.

It is unfortunate that the petition used data from the Institute of Social and Economic Research, which found legalising cannabis could bring in # 900 million in taxes every year, save # 400 million on policing cannabis and create over 10,000 new jobs.

that religious selection amounts to legalised discrimination on the basis of belief or practice, which is increasingly unacceptable to many people of faith and of no faith on equality grounds in our plural society

After it became clear that a majority in both houses of parliament were in favour of legalisation, in July 2013 the Government inserted a section into the Same - Sex Marriage Act, which was at the time going through Parliament, saying that it could in the future legalise humanist marriages in England and Wales, if it wishes, without the need for further primary legislation; and also that it had to consult and make a decision on doing so before the end of 2014.

I've never had a puff of a cigarette (or ingested any illegal substance) in my life — but we'd agree that freedom is good for the health of a nation (not that it's ever perfect — I would prefer all drugs legalised, for one example) and rejoice in this example in history, the blessing of which has flowed back to us in the UK and way beyond.

Legalising urban agriculture and formal recognition of agriculture as a formal urban landuse and identification of which tracts of land are available for urban agriculture and what types of agriculture are suitable for such a location are important steps in the creation of a facilitating and regulating policy framework on urban agriculture replacing the existing neglecting or restricting policies.

However, in Wilkinson v Kitzinger [2006] All ER (D) 210 (Apr) the President of the Family Division, Sir Mark Potter, distinguished between marriage and civil partnership on the basis that the former must be between a man and a woman as provided for in the MCA 1973, legislation which was originally debated in the late 1960s at a time when homosexuality had only been legalised by the Sexual Offences Act 1967.

By contrast, a report to the Scottish Parliament in 2003, A Critical Examination of Responses to Prostitution in Four Countries: Victoria, Australia; Ireland; the Netherlands; and Sweden, found that countries (such as the Netherlands) which had legalised and / or regulated prostitution had seen a dramatic increase in all aspects of the sex industry and a corresponding increase in organised crime and violence against women.

South Korean lawmakers are toiling hard to enforce a set of bills which shall provide legalised plying fields to cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and safeguard the investors from potential threat involved.

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