Unification, simplification, amplification? An analysis of aspects of the British Equality Act 2010

Hand, James; Davis, Bernard D.; Feast, Pat

doi:10.1080/03050718.2012.695001

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“…Gender reassignment is one of the characteristics protected by the Equality Act of 2010 (EA) (Davies et al, 2016;Fell and Dyban, 2017;Hand, 2012). The EA establishes that: "(1) A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person's sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex.…”

Section: The Equality Actmentioning

confidence: 99%

Definition of Mother in the English Legal System

Angón¹

2021

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The purpose of this paper is to analyse how the term “mother” is defined in the English legal system. This question has recently been raised in English courts due to the McConnel case; where a woman, who had undergone a gender transition and acquired full legal recognition as a male, gave birth to a child and asked to be registered as the father of his child. In the first part of the paper, I will study the legal frame and the main decisions of the English courts. In the second part, I will analyse the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and the consequences of the McConnel case in English family law. And finally, I will explain the role that the principle of the best interests of the child plays in this context.

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Section: The Equality Actmentioning

confidence: 99%