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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 May 2006
- ISBN 9780199297733
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages356 pages
- Size 240x160x30 mm
- Weight 675 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book is based on the Clarendon Lectures in Law given in October 2005. The book deals with the remarkable change in society's attitude to homosexuality since the 1960s, and the 2005 Civil Partnership Act, which creates a framework in which same-sex couples can have their relationship legally recognised in much the same way as heterosexual marriage. It examines questions such as what are the essentials of the civil partnership relationship? Do civil partnerships really provide for a 'gay marriage', and if not, will they satisfy the demands for equality increasingly being made by the gay community?
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Based on the 2005 Oxford Clarendon Lectures in Law, this book deals with the remarkable change in society's attitude to homosexuality over the last half century. Until 1967 homosexual acts were punished by the criminal law and as recently as 1988 Parliament forbade teachers from suggesting that homosexuality was an acceptable family relationship. In 2005 Parliament passed the Civil Partnership Act, which creates a framework in which same-sex couples can have their relationship legally recognised in much the same way as marriage. This book looks at the essentials of the civil partnerships contruct, and asks whether it is really creating an institution of 'gay marriage'? If not, the next question to ask is whether civil partnership can satisfy the demands for equality increasingly being made by the gay community?
In the United States, the courts have taken an active and progressive stance, holding that to deny marriage to same sex couples and leave them with mere partnership is to create a 'separate but equal' situation historically associated with the racial discrimination now universally recognised as unconstitutional and morally unjustifiable. However, the political climate has risen to a fever pitch with the current administration's push for constitutional amendment to ban outright gay marriage. In the UK the courts have been less activist, but the potential creation of a Supreme Court raises important questions about the boundaries between the roles of judiciary, the legislature, and government; and whether the judiciary should play a more constitutionally active role than has thus far been traditional?
..for those who crave detail, both legal and anecdotal, there is plenty to be found in the copious footnotes that, in accordance with Cretney's usual style, contain a treasure trove of secondary sources.
Table of Contents:
I From Felony to the Love that is Proud to Speak its Name
II Partnership or Marriage: The Provisions of the Civil Partnership Act
III The Family, Partnership, and the Judges
Appendices
Text of The Civil Partnerships Act 2004, Parts 1 and 2, and Schedules 1 to 9
Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution paras 1 - 147 and pp 130 - 135
Judicial Decisions
Halpern et al v Attorney General of Canada et al, Court of Appeal for Ontario
Lawrence v Texas, United States Supreme Court
Hillary Goodridge & others v Department of Health and others, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
Opinions of the Justices to the Senate, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
Lofton v Secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services, United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
