Heterosexual couples across England and Wales are now able to enter into a civil partnership. A change in legislation means that mixed-sex couples can become civil partners as opposed to husband and ...

Chris Cramp, left, and his partner Matthew Roche were one of the first same-sex couples in the UK to form a civil partnership on 5 December, 2005 "It was officially a civil partnership, but we classed ...

In a move that Irish Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern described as “one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation to come before us since independence," the legislation to recognize in ...

A heterosexual couple was refused a civil partnership at London's Camden Register Office on Dec. 8. The registrar cited the legal ban on opposite-sex civil partnerships as the reason for the refusal.