Invoking Human Rights to Protect Unmarried Couples

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dc.contributor.authorRodway, Helen
dc.date.acceptance2022
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-30T14:49:51Z
dc.date.available2024-04-30T14:49:51Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the methodology developed in Re an application by Siobhan McLaughlin for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2018] UKSC 48 and other recent cases that have seen cohabitants use the European Convention on Human Rights to gain access to legal protections originally intended exclusively for spouses and civil partners. It will be argued that whilst McLaughlin demonstrates a robust approach to discrimination affecting unmarried couples, the methodology is caveated leading to questions surrounding whether its scope is wide enough to have any substantial benefit in future litigation. This article undertakes a systematic analysis of the stages of an ECHR claim to argue that the developments in these cohabitation cases should be welcomed, and that there is a role for human rights to play to alleviate the discrimination facing cohabitants. However, the continued acceptance of the legitimacy of promoting formalised relationships to justify different treatment alongside a disproportionate weight attached to the presence of children means that the methodology may have limited application.
dc.exception.ref2021codes254a
dc.funderNo external funder
dc.identifier.citationRodway, H. (2022) Invoking Human Rights to Protect Unmarried Couples' Child and Family Law Quarterly 34 (3) pp. 221-240
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2086/23738
dc.language.isoen
dc.peerreviewedYes
dc.publisherLexis
dc.subjectCohabitation
dc.subjectECHR
dc.subjectArticle 14
dc.subjectMcLaughlin
dc.titleInvoking Human Rights to Protect Unmarried Couples
dc.typeArticle

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