Perspectives on civil partnerships and marriages in England and Wales: aspects, attitudes and assessments Date:11 JUN 2021
Introduction
This article considers the developments since the turn of the century in the provision of new options for same sex and opposite sex couples to formalise their unions with full legal recognition. The available statistical information on the take-up of same sex civil partnerships and marriages is analysed and evaluated, and an early estimation made of their dissolutions and divorces. The possible implications of recent trends are considered, and a personal appraisal made of prospects for the immediate future. To a lay person, the sequence of introducing civil partnerships and same-sex marriage in England and Wales has been a curious, if not puzzling, progression, perhaps only really understood by the initial opposition to (same sex) civil partnerships, and in particular that they should not be accorded equivalence to marriage. The whole story[1
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Changes to the NHS Pension Scheme regulations
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Summary The Department of Health and Social Care is consulting on proposals to change NHS Pension Scheme regulations. This consultation closes at
Consultation description
Proposed changes include:
equalising the entitlement to survivor pensions for male survivors of female scheme members, following the Employment Tribunal decision in Goodwin v Secretary of State for Education
removing certain amendments to the 1995 Section Regulations made by the Civil Partnership (Opposite Sex Couples) Regulations 2019 following Goodwin
ensuring that payments and allowances under the New to Partnership Payments Scheme are treated as non-pensionable earnings
reforming the final pay control provisions of the 1995 Section Regulations.