In late October, Lillian Ladele, the Christian registrar whose court battle to protect freedom of conscience became the UK’s leading case on the issue, died at home of natural causes aged 54.
Miss Ladele faced a long-running legal battle which went all the way to the European Court of Human Rights following the introduction of civil partnerships.
Miss Ladele wrote to her employer in 2006 asking for a reasonable accommodation of her religious objection to same sex civil partnerships. Islington accepted that it had more than enough registrars to provide a civil partnership service to the public without requiring Miss Ladele’s involvement.
