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- Title
A Family by any other Name ... or StarbucksTM comes to England.
- Authors
JDiduck, Alison; Diduck, Alison
- Abstract
The article examines the recent House of Lords decision in Fitzpatrickv. Sterling Housing Associationfrom two perspectives. The first adopts a perspective of rights and discrimination and speculates as to how a court may in future decide such a case in the light of Britain's obligations under the Human Rights Act 1998. The second offers a review of some of the literature which questions the effectiveness of such a rights-based approach for achieving justice for lesbian women and gay men, and, from a feminist perspective, expresses caution about instantiating in law a traditional idea of 'family' and the privilege attached to that ideal.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; LEGAL judgments; GREAT Britain. Parliament. House of Lords; HUMAN rights; LEGAL status of heterosexuals
- Publication
Journal of Law & Society, 2001, Vol 28, Issue 2
- ISSN
0263-323X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-6478.00190