The Weekly Law Reports
[2003] 2 WLR 1174
House of Lords
Bellinger
v
Bellinger (Lord Chancellor intervening)
[2003] UKHL 21
2003 Jan 20,
21;
April 10
April 10
Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Hobhouse of Woodborough, Lord Scott of Foscote and Lord Rodger of Earlsferry
Husband and wife
— Nullity
— Capacity to marry
— Wife correctly registered as male at birth
— Thereafter living as female and undergoing gender reassignment surgery
— Wife seeking declaration of validity of marriage
— Whether female or male for purposes of marriage
— Whether violations of right to respect for private and family life and right to marry
—
Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), s. 11(c)
—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s. 4, Sch. 1, Pt I, arts 8, 12