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Plans to give legal rights to cohabiting couples delayed

Plans to give cohabiting couples legal rights like married couples appear to have been put on a back burner while the Government waits to see the effects of similar laws in Scotland.

7 Mar 2008
Marriage and the Family

Cabinet ministers threaten to rebel over embryos Bill

Three senior Cabinet ministers have said they will vote against the Government’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill because of ethical objections.

6 Mar 2008
Medical Ethics

House of Lords vote to repeal blasphemy laws

6 Mar 2008
Christian Heritage

Lords debate free speech clause to ‘gay hatred’ law

4 Mar 2008
Religious Liberty

MPs slam embryo watchdog for pre-empting Parliament

3 Mar 2008
Medical Ethics

Failed all-day drinking laws may be here to stay

3 Mar 2008
Drugs

Consultation for religious groups on ‘public benefit’

3 Mar 2008
Religious Liberty

Government delays plans to change law on prostitution

29 Feb 2008
Prostitution

Primary school pupils could get compulsory sex lessons

26 Feb 2008
Marriage and the Family

Brown sees no reason for lower abortion time limit

26 Feb 2008
Medical Ethics

Ministers give final thumbs up for 16 ‘gambling palaces’

26 Feb 2008
Gambling

David Cameron wants abortion limit lowered

25 Feb 2008
Medical Ethics

300,000 sign petition against New Zealand’s smacking ban

25 Feb 2008
Reasonable Chastisement

Grief over aborted twins drove woman to suicide

22 Feb 2008
Abortion