Barrister Paul Ward launching the Lawyers For Yes position paper
This morning.
The Clarence Hotel, Dublin.
Anita writes:
Lawyers for Yes have just launched their position paper which sets out the legal implications for a Yes Vote in the upcoming Marriage Equality Referendum.
The launch was chaired by Peter Ward SC., with family law speakers Mary O’Toole SC. and Fintan Valentine BL. The Position Paper is titled: “Lawyers for Yes: The Case for Marriage Equality” [at link below]. Lawyers for Yes have also assembled a panel of speakers to enhance and focus debate on the legal implications of the Referendum. Anyone who is interested in getting involved or contacting us should do so via our twitter @lawyers4yes
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May it please the court.
Thank you, this was bugging me.
Who do these guys think they are with their facts?
Surely emotional speculation is what this referendum is all about!
Yay! A 16-page densely-worded document clinically and emotionlessly laying out the legal ramifications is *exactly* what the Yes campaign has been crying out for.
(For real though, no one is reading that monster who doesn’t already have their mind made up, and no one going door-to-door or discussing it with relatives/friends is trying to win them over by explaining the legal difference between “definition of marriage” and “definition of who can marry under the law”)
I’d read it (but then I’m a law student with no life!!)
There’s always one.
ABM is reading this, plugging his ears, shaking his head and saying “la la la la la” all at the same time. Which is no mean feat of coordination, really.
Not really, ABM is more likely to be looking up porn. All in the name of “research” and “fact-finding” of course…
Are there any Bankers for Yes – does anyone know?
Yankers for Bess
i thought it said ‘lawyers for less’ at first. i thought it was an ad for cheap legal aid.
Just bakers, butchers and candle-stick makers for YES! No sign of the bankers.
Paul Ward or Peter Ward? Paul Ward is a lecturer in UCD/Barrister be curious to know if its the same guy…
Legal Coffee Drinker, can you answer me a question please?
Will the legalisation of gay marriage finally extend the right to marital privacy to same sex married couples?
It was a really important finding in the McGee case in 1973 and myself and a friend were discussing it in the park yesterday.
I was thinking it would be an important point to put before voters in advance of the referendum because, aside from all the emotionally engaging reasons to vote yes, there are some very boring practical reasons to vote yes and one is that same sex couples are disbarred from several key legal rights granted to married couples and the right to privacy in their marriage is one of them. The right not to be compelled to testify against a partner in court is another and neither of these have anything to do with children so it might just get a few of the more wavering ‘no’ siders to rethink their decision on practical and common sense grounds.
There’s my two cents. I’d love LCD to give a real legal opinion on it tho and it might form a future broadsheet post.
Happy Friday everyone!