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Article: Equality, Dignity, and Same-Sex Marriage: Developments in Hong Kong
| Title | Equality, Dignity, and Same-Sex Marriage: Developments in Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 18-Apr-2023 |
| Publisher | LEXIS-NEXIS, Division of Reed Elsevier |
| Citation | Hong Kong Law Journal, 2023, v. 53, n. 1, p. 37-49 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | On 28 June 2023, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (CFA) will hear an appeal of the Court of Appeal’s decision in Sham Tsz Kit v Secretary for Justice, a case challenging the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage and the lack of other forms of relationship recognition with equivalent rights and responsibilities. This article considers the courts’ rejection of these constitutional claims thus far and argues that their conception of the relevant constitutional, legal and historical contexts is overly narrow. In particular, the failure to invoke the constitutional values of equality and dignity departs from CFA precedent and the well-established “purposive and contextual” approach to the interpreta-tion of constitutional rights. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/337105 |
| ISSN | 2021 Impact Factor: 0.242 2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.112 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Loper, Kelley Ann | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-11T10:18:08Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-11T10:18:08Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-04-18 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Hong Kong Law Journal, 2023, v. 53, n. 1, p. 37-49 | - |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0378-0600 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/337105 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | <p>On 28 June 2023, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (CFA) will hear an appeal of the Court of Appeal’s decision in Sham Tsz Kit v Secretary for Justice, a case challenging the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage and the lack of other forms of relationship recognition with equivalent rights and responsibilities. This article considers the courts’ rejection of these constitutional claims thus far and argues that their conception of the relevant constitutional, legal and historical contexts is overly narrow. In particular, the failure to invoke the constitutional values of equality and dignity departs from CFA precedent and the well-established “purposive and contextual” approach to the interpreta-tion of constitutional rights.<br></p> | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.publisher | LEXIS-NEXIS, Division of Reed Elsevier | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Hong Kong Law Journal | - |
| dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
| dc.title | Equality, Dignity, and Same-Sex Marriage: Developments in Hong Kong | - |
| dc.type | Article | - |
| dc.identifier.volume | 53 | - |
| dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
| dc.identifier.spage | 37 | - |
| dc.identifier.epage | 49 | - |
| dc.identifier.issnl | 0378-0600 | - |