Analysis: Proposed legislation to create heterosexual civil partnerships will still not create a "common law" marriage

In June 2018 the Supreme Court ruled in favour of a heterosexual couple who had argued that their inability to formalise their relationship through a civil partnership was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Prime Minister indicated in October that she would legislate to give all couples the same choices as to how to achieve legal recognition of their relationship for the first time, writes Ashford's family solicitor Emma Mackay. 

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