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Baroness Deech. Image © House of Lords / photography by Roger Harris, reproduced under an Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence

Cohabitation rights create ‘profound constitutional change’ with no mandate, justice secretary warned

The government has no clear public mandate for introducing automatic legal rights and obligations for cohabiting couples without their consent, Baroness Ruth Deech has warned the justice secretary, Alex Norris. In her response to the Ministry of Justice’s consultation A Fairer End to Relationships, the crossbench peer (pictured) argues if the government concludes unmarried couples need greater legal protection, it should

Baroness Deech. Image © House of Lords / photography by Roger Harris, reproduced under an Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence

Cohabitation rights create ‘profound constitutional change’ with no mandate, justice secretary warned

The government has no clear public mandate for introducing automatic legal rights and obligations for cohabiting couples without their consent, Baroness Ruth Deech has warned the justice secretary, Alex Norris. In her response to the Ministry of Justice’s consultation A Fairer End to Relationships, the crossbench peer (pictured) argues if the government concludes unmarried couples need greater legal protection, it should

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