Lesbian couple seek UK recognition of marriage

-- Laws preventing the recognition of same-sex marriages should be consigned to the legal dustbin, a high court judge was told today.

Sir Mark Potter, the president of the high court family division, is hearing a plea by a British lesbian couple who legally married in Canada for UK recognition of their marriage.

"But for the fact that the marriage was between partners of the same sex, it would be recognised as valid in England and Wales," Karon Monaghan, representing one of the women, told the judge. --