rethinking conjugality as the basis for family recognition: a feminist rewriting of the judgment in burden v. united kingdom
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Abstract
In Burden v. UK, elderly cohabiting sisters unsuccessfully challenged their exclusion from civil partnerships. They claimed this exclusion was a violation of the prohibition of discrimination (Article 14) and the right to peaceful enjoyment of property (Article 1 of Protocol 1) under the European Convention on Human Rights because the surviving sister would be liable to pay inheritance tax whereas a lesbian couple could avoid this liability by registering a civil partnership. The facts of the case and the judgments by both the Chamber and Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights raise interesting questions about the extent to which it is justifiable to base legal protections on conjugality. In this paper, I will explore these questions and consider how the judgment could be rewritten from a feminist perspective.
En Burden v. Reino Unido, dos hermanas mayores que vivían juntas no consiguieron impugnar su exclusión de las uniones civiles. Argumentaban que esta exclusión suponía una violación de la prohibición de discriminación (artículo 14) y del derecho al disfrute de los bienes (artículo 1 del Protocolo 1) en virtud del Convenio Europeo de Derechos Humanos porque la hermana superviviente estaría obligada a pagar el impuesto de sucesiones, mientras que una pareja de lesbianas podría evitar esta obligación mediante el registro de una unión civil. Los hechos del caso y las sentencias tanto de la Sala como de la Gran Sala del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos plantean cuestiones interesantes sobre el grado en el que es justificable basar las protecciones jurídicas en la conyugalidad. En este artículo se analizan estas cuestiones y se considera cómo se podría reescribir la sentencia desde una perspectiva feminista.
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| Authors | ;Nicola J. Barker |
| Journal | Molecular and biochemical parasitology |
| Year | 2016 |
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