British ban on in-laws marrying outlawed

EUROPEAN judges yesterday outlawed a British ban on marriage between parents-in-law and children-in-law.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg said denying in-laws the right to wed breached their human rights.

The ruling came in a case brought by a Warrington couple who were refused the right to marry because the man, aged nearly 60, is the father-in-law of the woman, more than 20 years his junior.