Opposite-sex civil partnerships: update

Readers may recall that, earlier this year, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan were unsuccessful in their crowd-funded challenge to the restriction of civil partnerships by s 1 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 to “two people of the same sex” [disclosure: Frank contributed to their appeal for funds]. We posted about the judgment in Steinfeld & Anor v The Secretary of State for Education [2016] EWHC 128 (Admin) at the time.

The couple have just announced that their appeal will be heard on 2 and 3 November. Presumably, judgment will be handed down at some time early in the New Year: watch this space. Continue reading →