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JUDGE DISMISSES SAME-SEX MARRIAGE CASES AT NORTH’S HIGH COURT

August 17, 2017
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belfasthighcourtTHE High Court has dismissed two cases challenging Northern Ireland’s ban on same-sex marriage.

Delivering his judgement, a judge said it was for the Stormont Assembly, and not a judge, to decide social policy.

A joint case was taken by the first lesbian couple and the first gay couple to enter civil partnerships in the UK.

A second case brought by a couple who wed in England but want their marriage legally recognised at home in the North of Ireland.

Giving the judgement of the court, Mr Justice O’Hara said: “It is not at all difficult to understand how gay men and lesbians who have suffered discrimination, rejection and exclusion feel so strongly about the maintenance in Northern Ireland of the barrier to same sex marriage.

“However, the judgment which I have to reach is not based on social policy but on the law.”

Same-sex marriage is legal in England, Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland but is banned in the North of Ireland.

Shannon Sickles, Grainne Close, and Chris and Henry Flanagan-Kane were challenging Stormont’s refusal to legislate for same-sex marriage.

JUDGE DISMISSES SAME-SEX MARRIAGE CASES AT NORTH’S HIGH COURT was last modified: August 17th, 2017 by John

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