‘This article will focus on those seeking to come to the UK to marry or form a civil partnership, or give notice of marriage or civil partnership.’
Richmond Chambers, 25th January 2025
Source: immigrationbarrister.co.uk
‘Two bereaved parents have filed a case at the European court of human rights, claiming that the UK government’s treatment of them is discriminatory.’
The Guardian, 8th February 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘On 31 January 2025, the Church in Wales issued the Press Release Discerning the future of same-sex blessings in the Church in Wales. The CiW introduced a time-limited provision in October 2021 which is due to expire in September 2026 after which the options include: allowing the provision to lapse; extending the current blessings; or taking the significant step of introducing a formal service of marriage for same-sex couples.’
Law & Religion UK, 6th February 2025
Source: lawandreligionuk.com
‘Family life is busy for Israr Hussain and his wife, Tasleem Akhtar, who have four daughters between the ages of five and 15. They chose to have their wedding back home in Pakistan in 2007 and live in Birmingham. The 47-year-olds are not only husband and wife, but also first cousins, as both of their fathers are brothers. Marrying a first cousin is commonplace among Muslim families. It is about protecting wealth, land and property and helps keep the family together. While marriage between first cousins is not illegal in the UK, medical experts say it can cause genetic diseases in the children they may bear.’
BBC News, 27th January 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘On 18 December, the Law Commission published its scoping report on the laws governing finances on divorce and the ending of a civil partnership, an extract of which is reproduced below.’
Law & Religion UK, 18th December 2024
Source: lawandreligionuk.com
‘Since 31 January 2024, victims of transnational marriage abandonment can apply for a visa to return to the UK. This follows the landmark case of R on the application of AM -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department 2022.’
EIN Blog, 8th December 2024
Source: www.ein.org.uk
‘Dozens of divorce applications were wrongly approved due to a computer error, the high court has heard.’
The Guardian, 31st October 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Financial Remedies – Non Matrimonial Property.’
33 Bedford Row, 2nd September 2024
Source: www.33bedfordrow.co.uk
‘Since the two seminal decisions of the House of Lords, first in White v White [2000] 2 FLR 981 and then in Miller v Miller; McFarlane v McFarlane [2006] 1 FLR 1186, introduced practitioners to the potentially crucial distinction (in sharing cases, at least) between matrimonial and non-matrimonial property, and the decision of Nicholas Mostyn QC (as he then was) in GW v RW (Financial Provision: Departure from Equality) [2003] 2 FLR 108 introduced into orthodoxy the practice of treating seamless pre-marital cohabitation as, or at least as if it were, part of a marriage, the question of when parties commenced cohabitation has assumed an important significance (although, unlike the ES1, Form E still does not require them to set out when they say that was), alongside the question of when they separated.’
Financial Remedies Journal, 22nd August 2024
Source: financialremediesjournal.com
‘The serial killer Levi Bellfield has been blocked from having a civil partnership, after a new law came into force stopping the most serious offenders getting married behind bars.’
The Guardian, 2nd August 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Judgment has now been handed down in Langley v Qin, a dispute over the will of Robert Harrington
who, at the age of 93, married his carer, Ms Qin, then aged 54.’
New Square Chambers, 15th April 2024
Source: newsquarechambers.co.uk
‘This article critiques the decision of the Court of Appeal in Re SA (Declaration of Non-Recognition of Marriage) [2023] EWCA Civ 1003. In Re SA the Court of Appeal held that: (1) by operation of section 16 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, a voidable marriage is not void at its inception and is therefore not caught by section 58(5)(a) of the Family Law Act 1986, and (2) the effect of section 16 of the 1973 Act is that a voidable marriage starts off fully valid but only on making a decree absolute of nullity becomes invalid. This article contends that the approach adopted by the Court of Appeal in SA is conceptually challenging, based on a misreading of the statutory language, and is directly contrary to long-established and powerful authorities.’
Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 18 January 2024
Source: www.cambridge.org
‘Amanda Schofield analyses a Court of Appeal ruling on the jurisdiction of the court to make a declaration that a marriage is not recognised as valid in England and Wales.’
Local Government Lawyer, 15th March 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A family who left an arranged marriage bride in a vegetative state after she was forced to take pills and doused with a corrosive substance has been jailed.’
The Independent, 14th February 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The estranged British wife of a “prominent” Indonesian businessman who wants a judge in England to decide how much she walks away with has won an initial round of a London divorce fight.
Deputy High Court Judge James Ewins has ruled that Monisha Mahtani, 49, is still married to husband Vivek Mahtani, 51, under English law.’
The Independent, 27th November 2023
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘In this casenote, Paul Newman KC considers the recent decision of the Deputy Pensions Ombudsman in the matter of Mrs S, whose widow’s pension in the Teacher’s Pension Scheme had terminated by reason of remarriage – unknown to the administrator.’
Pensions Barrister, 26th October 2023
Source: www.pensionsbarrister.com
‘On 5 October 2023, the Law Commission began a consultation into the use of electronic wills and the effect of a marriage or civil partnership on an existing will.’
Mills & Reeve, 12th October 2023
Source: www.mills-reeve.com
‘A new Wills Act could permit electronic wills to be introduced “immediately”, rather than enabling the Lord Chancellor to introduce them by statutory instrument at some point in the future, the Law Commission has said.’
Legal Futures, 5th October 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A marital property regime is a system of property ownership between spouses. Property includes landed property, chattels, money in a bank account, businesses, shares in companies and claims (eg a loan). Marital property regimes differ from country to country. In some countries the matrimonial regime is imposed by operation of law and arises automatically upon marriage. Many civil law countries allow parties to select a matrimonial regime. This is usually by way of a pre-nuptial agreement.’
5SAH, 27th September 2023
Source: www.5sah.co.uk
‘For those romantics, escapees from tradition (Las Vagas chapel not country church) or the merely impetuous, what does getting married abroad mean in terms of validity of the marriage? And for those who marry abroad and subsequently move to live in the UK, is their marriage recognised?’
Family Law, 2nd October 2023
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
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