‘Stephanie Hawthorn, associate, and Robert Jackson, trainee solicitor, at Mills & Reeve LLP, consider the important news and case law relating to financial remedies and divorce during September 2021.’
Family Law Week, 8th October 2021
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Cases involving bigamy are relatively rare, and the judgment of Williams J in Padero-Mernagh v Mernagh provides a useful analysis of the relevant law in that regard. Of particular note, however, is the way in which the final hearing was dealt with remotely, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.’
Family Law, 28th May 2020
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘A married US economist lost a High Court battle against his Thai bride over a Facebook picture she uploaded that he feared would out his secret relationship with her.’
Daily Telegraph, 25th July 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A bigamist who was caught out when his wife saw him on live television with another woman has been jailed.’
BBC News, 10th January 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A lorry driver has been jailed for cheating his terminally ill wife out of £30,000 of incapacity benefits and committing bigamy by marrying a new bride on their wedding anniversary.’
The Guardian, 25th August 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A successful businessman has been convicted of bigamy for the second time in less than a year after it emerged that he never got round to divorcing his first wife of 35-years. ‘
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Daily Telegraph, 7th August 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A 34-year-old Cardiff man has become the first person in the UK to be prosecuted under forced marriage laws introduced a year ago.’
BBC News, 10th June 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A bigamist will serve at least 25 years in prison after being found guilty of murdering the second of his wives to cash in her life insurance and solve his financial problems.’
The Guardian, 27th February 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ayse Akgun was convicted for trying to make a fraudulent claim on her second husband’s £2.6 million estate when he died.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man who wed his Canadian bride in Las Vegas while still married to a woman in England has had his jail term cut.”
BBC News, 31st May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who wed his Canadian bride in Las Vegas while still married to a woman in
England has been jailed for 20 weeks.”
BBC News, 29th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A bigamist who has been married to four different women has avoided jail after
insisting that his extended family were financially dependent upon him.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A serial bigamist who fooled a doctor into giving her sleeping pills by dressing as her seventh husband has been spared a jail sentence.”
The Guardian, 21st March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A foreign drug-dealing bigamist has won the right to stay in Britain because of his human right to ‘family life’.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The children of the Duke of Manchester’s bigamous second marriage can benefit from his estate, after a judge ruled that the aristocracy cannot ignore the rights of illegitimate offspring.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A twice-married man serving a prison sentence has been jailed for nine months after admitting bigamy.”
BBC News, 30th March 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A bigamist has escaped jail after the wife he tricked into marriage appealed to a judge to be lenient, saying she had ‘entirely forgiven’ him.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th September 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A serial bigamist was spared jail today after a judge said she was a manipulative woman who had undermined the institution of marriage. Emily Horne, 30, who had married on five occasions but crucially never divorced, admitted it was time she got a divorce.”
The Guardian, 27th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former glamour model and adult film actress has admitted getting married while still legally wed, for the fifth time.”
BBC News, 22nd June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former church minister and policeman has been jailed for three years for bigamy and forgery.”
BBC News, 5th December 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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