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Charlotte Kelly - 3rd September 2018
The case of Owens v Owens rocked the legal world in late July, when the Supreme Court decided that Tini Owens could not divorce her husband, despite the court recognising that this could leave her “trapped in an unhappy marriage.” Her husband, Hugh John Owens, had sought to defend against Mrs Owens’ petition for divorce […]
Fraciah Muringi - 12th December 2016
The High Court of Kenya in A.M.N & 2 others v The Attorney General & 5 others was faced with the issue of how surrogacy agreements ought to be enforced. Since there was no law governing surrogacy in Kenya, the Court had recourse to the United Kingdom’s (UK) position. In this petition, the parentage of […]
Karl Laird - 18th June 2016
It has recently been announced that the challenge to the prohibition on opposite sex couples entering into civil partnerships in England and Wales is due to be heard by the Court of Appeal in November 2016. This announcement provides an opportunity to consider what was decided in High Court. The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act […]
Stephanie Tai - 19th January 2016
At the end of October 2015, the Chinese government announced that it would end its one-child policy by replacing it with the two-child policy. China’s two-child policy is a false triumph for human rights. Whilst some have greeted this as a step in the right direction, the mere existence of a policy controlling the number […]
Nehaa Chaudhari - 12th November 2015
India’s reported decision to ban surrogacy for foreigners has received plenty of news coverage and analysis in Indian and international media over the past week. This post is a comment on the related legislative developments around assisted reproductive technologies in India. Largely unregulated, the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) industry is of significant value in India. […]
Frances Raday - 2nd September 2015
In recent years at the United Nation’s Human Right’s Council (UNHRC) an ideological challenge has been directed against the universality of international human rights by a strong religious lobby. Religions themselves have, in the human rights era, self-identified as the core of resistance to universal human rights and, in particular, to women’s right to equality […]