United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 27537
Marriage: Humanism
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10 March 2020
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18 March 2020 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the judgment in Smyth, Re Judicial Review [2017] NIQB 55, for what reasons the remit of the Law Commission's review of weddings law includes the legal recognition of humanist marriages.
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10 March 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the judgment in Smyth, Re Judicial Review [2017] NIQB 55, for what reasons the remit of the Law Commission's review of weddings law includes the legal recognition of humanist marriages.
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18 March 2020
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The Government announced in June 2019 that the Law Commission will conduct a fundamental review of the law on how and where people can legally marry in England and Wales. As part of that review, the Government invited the Law Commission to make recommenda...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-03-10/27537
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1183874
- uk · wq-1183874 · source updated 18 March 2020