Tag: Alex Potts QC

Loss of civil union law would restore rights violations

Loss of civil union law would restore rights violations

| 03/12/2021 | 75 Comments

(CNS): The lawyer representing the Attorney General’s Chambers and the governor’s office told a court Thursday that if it overturned the Civil Partnership Act, which gave legal status to same-sex unions, it would be re-introducing the serious violation of human rights against the LGBT community that had been identified by the Cayman Islands Court of […]

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LGBT advocates will have voice in JR of civil unions

LGBT advocates will have voice in JR of civil unions

| 01/11/2021 | 12 Comments

(CNS): The Grand Court has ruled that Colours Caribbean, a local LGBTQIA+ advocacy group, has the expertise to intervene in a judicial review brought by a conservative Christian group challenging the way the law that provides for same-sex civil unions was rolled out. Justice Richard Williams said that Colours is not only well aware of […]

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Same-sex couples must be heard in JR, says NPO

Same-sex couples must be heard in JR, says NPO

| 20/10/2021 | 94 Comments

(CNS): The lives of more than 40, mostly same-sex couples and their children will be “severely disrupted” if a judicial review of the governor’s use of his constitutional power to push through the Civil Partnership Law was to succeed and as a result they need to be heard, a lawyer argued Tuesday.

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