Last year Luxembourg became the ninth EU country to legalise same-sex marriage – and today the law came into effect. Jean Paul Olinger and Henri Lorenzo Huber were the first same-sex couple to take advantage of the law, with Differdange…
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Scotland’s first same-sex marriages
The first day of same-sex weddings in Scotland saw 34 people get hitched today. On the stroke of midnight the first two ceremonies were conducted in Glasgow – Joe Schofield and Malcolm Brown in a humanist ceremony, and Susan and Gerrie…
Civil Partnership to Marriage: conversion rules
The government’s second draft of rules for converting a civil partnership to a marriage has been published today. They will come into effect from 10th December and apply to Wales & England. It’s expected that Scotland will have its own…
Scotland: Marriage in 2014, just!
The Scottish Government has at last announced the date for the first same-sex marriage ceremonies in Scotland: 31st December 2014! Same-sex marriage will be legal in Scotland from 16 December, but that is only the date from which couples can submit…
Backbencher bids to extend Civil Partnership
Conservative MP for East Worthing & Shoreham Tim Loughton will tomorrow propose the extension of Civil Partnerships to mixed-sex couples. The proposal is a very short Private Members Bill that would simply remove the words “same-sex” from the original 2004…