Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Tamas]

Peak "computer says no" moment: newborn baby is registered with wrong birth sex but it cannot be corrected because of reasons:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/19/baby-girl-registered-wrong-sex-mansfield-registration-office

[Sheilbh]

There's recently been a case in the legal press where a law firm fucked up the paperwork so accidentally got the courts to divorce the wrong couple

[HVC]

Was one of the "accidently" divorced persons a lawyer in the firm?

[Barrister]

Peak "computer says no" moment: newborn baby is registered with wrong birth sex but it cannot be corrected because of reasons:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/19/baby-girl-registered-wrong-sex-mansfield-registration-office

So one of the things I've learned in a career in law is that you can do basically anything as long as all parties agree.

So how the hell can you not correct a birth certificate that everyone agrees is incorrect?


Edit: I'm not authorized to give legal advice in England and Wales, but surely the couple could just seek a writ of mandamus and seek costs against the government?

[HVC]

He was me favourite he-man villain.

[Barrister]

He was me favourite he-man villain.

Certiorari was cooler.

[Sheilbh]

Yeah I don't get it given that in the same story:

In a twist to the tale, Sarah Power, who registered her baby daughter at the same register office – with the same registrar – in October last year, had a similar experience.

"The registrar read back all the details correctly – including that our daughter was female – and then asked us to check the spellings of the name," she said. "We checked the spelling but not the gender, because the registrar had already said it to us correctly."

"It was only when we got outside the office door that we looked at the certificate and realised that our daughter had been registered as male."

Power, however, was able to get a new, corrected birth certificate for her daughter after the registrar directed her to a GPO form. The Home Office, however, say this is no longer an option. 'The local registration service was advised earlier this year not to issue [corrected] certificates in this way," they said.

The GRO and Home Office are now saying this is impossible - I can't think of any new laws that changed things since last October. So it doesn't quite add up to me but sounds like some legal advice or "computer says no" situation.

Although the issue seems to be that they can correct the certificate, but it notes that there's been a correction as opposed to being a totally new certificate.

[Josquius]

Yet if unmarried parents have a kid and later get married apparently they legally have to - though it's an unenforced loop hole reregister.
Mad a mistake is insisted upon.