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W v Registrar of Marriages
(2013) 16 HKCFAR 112
Key Principle
The constitutional right to marry (Art 37 Basic Law; Art 19(2) BOR) requires that a post-operative male-to-female transsexual be treated as a 'woman' for the purpose of marriage; the biological-only criterion in Corbett v Corbett is no longer an acceptable test.
Area of Law
Practitioner & Recent-Significant Sweep
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