Private Member Bills That Are Set To Return In 2020

8 days after the General Election, the day following the State Opening, the ballot was held to allocate the order in which private member’s bills will be introduced to the House of Lords. For the first time, the ballot was drawn by students from the Education Centre. Private member’s bills are draft laws that have […]
Opposite-Sex Civil Partnerships Legal From 2nd December

The case of Steinfeld and Another v Secretary of State for Education in 2017 had the Court of Appeal find that that the provision, whereby civil partnership was only available to same sex couples, was contrary to article 14 of European Convention of Human Rights (protection from discrimination) taken in conjunction with Article 8 of the […]