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| Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have voted against liberalising the region’s abortion laws. Currently, abortion in Northern Ireland is illegal. Members of the Legislative Assembly had proposed to legalise abortion in cases where doctors believe that the baby will have a fatal foetal abnormality. | |
| The Law | Christian Concern - 13th February 2016 |
| The High Court has ruled that an opposite-sex couple is not being discriminated against because they are not allowed to enter into a civil partnership. Charles Keidan and Rebecca Steinfeld said they want to be "partners in law", but do not want to marry. The judge dismissed the couple's claim for judicial review, but gave them permission to appeal the decision, saying their case raised issues of "wider importance". | |
| The Law | Christian Concern - 30th January 2016 |
| Members of the Scottish Parliament have thrown out a petition to legalise incest between adults. MSPs rejected the petition, which asked the Scottish government to amend the law on incest, so that it would no longer apply to consenting adults over the age of 21. | |
| The Law | Christian Concern - 30th January 2016 |
| Drivers and passengers who smoke in cars carrying children will be fined from October 1st, after 342 MP’s voted in favour of the legislation. | |
| The Law | The Sentinel - September 21st 2015 |
| A Bill seeking to restrain the operation of sharia councils has been passed by the House of Lords, but the Peer who introduced it says there is "still a long way to go". | |
| The Law | The Christian Institute - 22nd January 2016 |
| The Joint Committee for Human Rights (JCHR) has launched a "sharply focused inquiry" into the government's 'counter-extremism' plans, ahead of the introduction of the Counter-Extremism Bill. In a letter to the home secretary, the JCHR Chair told Theresa May that the committee would scrutinise the plans "in light of the requirements of human rights law". | |
| The Law | Christian Concern - 6th February 2016 |
| Domestic abusers who control victims via social media or spy on them online could face up to five years in prison under a new law in England and Wales. | |
| The Law | BBC News - 29th December 2015 |
| A motion calling for the redefinition of marriage has failed to pass in the Northern Ireland Assembly. | |
| The Law | The Christian Institute - 6th November 2015 |
| The Australian Coalition Government has voted to keep its official position on marriage as between one man and one woman. The decision means that an upcoming same-sex marriage bill will not pass. | |
| The Law | Christian Concern - 15th August 2015 |
| The latest attempt to liberalise the current law and introduce assisted suicide has been comprehensively defeated in the Commons. The Assisted Dying Bill (No 2) was soundly rejected by MPs at Second Reading with 330 MPs voting against the legislation and 118 voting in favour. | |
| The Law | CARE - 11th September 2015 |
| The largest ever public consultation carried out by the Equality and Human Rights commission has found widespread public confusion and misunderstanding about the laws protecting freedom of religion or belief. Nearly 2,500 people responded to the call for evidence, with the largest number of responses coming from Christians from number of denominations. Some reported that they feared their religion is losing its place in the workplace and in society more generally, that they felt they were under pressure to keep their religion hidden and were discriminated against when it came to wearing religious symbols or expressing their beliefs. | |
| The Law | Life and Work – May 2015 |
| Drivers in England will be banned from smoking in their cars if they are carrying children as passengers. The move which will become law on 1st October, follows a similar ban in Wales and aims to protect young people under 18 from second-hand smoke. Scotland is also considering introducing a ban. Anyone found flouting the law in England could be fined £50. According to the British Lung Foundation 430,000 children are exposed to second-hand smoke in cars each week. | |
| The Law | The Sentinel - February 12th 2015 |
| Natalie Bennett said in May that the Green Party is ‘open’ to considering the recognition of polyamorous relationships. She told a man describing himself as in a ‘stable relationship’ with two other men: ‘At present, we do not have a policy on civil partnerships involving more than two people…[but] we have led the way on many issues related to the liberalisation of legal status in adult consenting relationships, and we are open to further conversation and consultation.’ | |
| The Law | Evangelicals Now – June 2015 |
| A High Court judge in May granted permission for a Judicial Review of the liberalisation of the prosecution policy in relation to the law on assisted suicide. An October amendment to the policy made the prosecution of healthcare professionals in assisted suicide cases less likely. Granting permission, Lord Justice Bean said that the granting of this review said nothing about the strength of the claim, expect that it was not frivolous. | |
| The Law | Evangelicals Now – June 2015 |
| A lawyer representing the Scottish Government has conceded that there is no opt out to the controversial Named Person scheme, despite previous assurances that parents are under no obligation to engage with the named person. | |
| The Law | The Christian Institute - 12th June 2015 |
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