
Londoners Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, who have been together for 10 years, took their case to the Court of Appeal after losing their case in the High Court last year.
The couple, who have a 20-month-old daughter, wanted a civil partnership because they reject the "patriarchal" institution of marriage on principal.
However, the Civil Partnership Act 2004 only grants civil partnership to homosexual couples, who also have the choice of marriage after it was legalized in England, Scotland and Wales in 2014.












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