Cohabitation Rights Bill [HL]

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Marks, for giving me the opportunity to speak on this impo...

My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate.

From these Benches, we re...

My Lords, it is perhaps time for someone to speak in support of the Bill. I congratulate the nobl...

My Lords, it is an enormous pleasure to follow the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss,...

Perhaps the noble Lord will allow me an intervention. On one side of the scales we have lawyers, ...

I am grateful for the intervention, but it does not match the facts. Resolution, for example, ind...

My Lords, I am only intervening here to make sure that I understand what is going on, having hear...

That is absolutely right, but it was not this measure; it was civil partnership applying to both ...

My Lords—

Perhaps I may just finish. These provisions relate not to civil partnership but to limited cohabi...

I was not referring to the Bill that the noble Lord was trying to put through. I was referring to...

I am grateful for the advice about how I should vote. Since I will not have a vote, it does not m...

My Lords, I think that is a rather unfair comparison. Jewish marriages are carried out according ...

I do not disagree with that as an aim, but I think I am more in favour of choice than the noble B...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Lester, and the noble and learned...

My Lords, I, too, thank my noble friend Lord Marks for bringing forward the Cohabitation Rights B...

My noble friend the Minister said that at this stage, the Government think that further work need...

We consider that the next Government, whoever they are, should undertake consultation and pre-leg...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this interesting and serious debate, which, ...