Vallejos v Commissioner of Registration
Vallejos and Daniel Domingo appealed their cases to the Court of Final Appeal, and were respectively assigned the case numbers FACV 19 and 20/2012. They would be represented before the CFA by Michael Fordham; David Pannick continued to represent the Government. Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma rejected a further application for joinder by eight-year-old Liang Wing-ki, the Hong Kong-born daughter of mainland parents, whose next friend, mother Li Yinxian, filed suit on her behalf. Philip Dykes, for the applicant, argued that because Vallejos and Domingo's case would touch on issues of interpretation of the Basic Law under Article 158, Liang's interests would also be affected. In rejecting Liang's application, Ma stated: "We feel that the points you seem to argue are adequately covered and will be adequately covered". Liang and other Hong Kong-born children like her were ruled to be entitled to the right of abode in Hong Kong in the 2001 case "Director of Immigration v. Chong Fung Yuen".
Recognition of same-sex unions in Ecuador
On 5 August 2013, LGBT rights groups launched a nationwide campaign under the name "Matrimonio Civil Igualitario" (Equal Civil Marriage), seeking to legalize same-sex marriage in the country. The campaign was launched with a marriage petition made by activist Pamela Troya and her partner at the Civil Registry of Quito. The petition was rejected days later, citing the country's Constitution and Civil Code. The couple announced on 8 August that they would file a lawsuit in order to have a judge order the Civil Registry to marry them. The lawsuit was filed on 13 August and is still pending. The case is currently being reviewed by the Supreme Court, and focuses heavily on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights case of "Atala Riffo and Daughters v. Chile", which held that sexual orientation is a suspect classification.