Finance & Divorce Update – Family Law Week
‘Jessica Craigs, senior solicitor of Mills & Reeve LLP analyses the financial remedies and divorce news and cases from January 2015.’
Family Law Week, 19th February 2015
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Category: marriage
Bridegroom who couldn’t remember the name of the woman he planned to marry is jailed for attempting to break UK immigration laws – The Independent
‘A bridegroom who couldn’t remember the name of the woman he planned to marry has been jailed for attempting to undergo a bogus wedding to cheat immigration laws.’
The Independent, 13th February 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Regina v Ali (Nazakat) – WLR Daily
Regina v Ali (Nazakat) [2015] EWCA Crim 43; [2015] WLR (D) 46
‘A solicitor who had been instrumental in finding brides for non-European Union clients and advising the clients to make false applications for certificates of approval, which he submitted to the to the UK Border Agency, had facilitated a breach of immigration law by his clients.’
WLR Daily, 3rd February 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Politicians have a human right to sound racist, says equalities watchdog – Daily Telegraph
‘Equality and Human Rights Commission upholds right to publish Mohammed cartoons but not to teach that gay people will ‘burn in Hell’.’
Daily Telegraph, 4th February 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Sham marriage stopped after groom uses iPhone translate function to talk to ‘fiancee’ – Daily Telegraph
‘Avtar Singh caught after raising suspicions by accessing translation app to communicate with future Czech wife.’
Daily Telegraph, 12th January 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Milestone tax breaks’ idea for married couples who stay together longer – Daily Telegraph
‘Former High Court family judge Sir Paul Coleridge calls for couples to be given extra tax breaks after passing landmark wedding anniversaries to encourage family stability.’
Daily Telegraph, 10th January 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Non-believers push for legal recognition of humanist weddings – The Guardian
‘Government due to respond to call for non-religious marriages to be enforceable in law, ending need for second, civil ceremony.’
The Guardian, 16th December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Mass polygamy in UK Muslim community – claim – Daily Telegraph
‘Peer warns widespread polygamy being ‘condoned’ as report claims many Muslim women trapped in legal limbo.’
Daily Telegraph, 10th December 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Couple launch challenge to heterosexual ban on Civil Partnerships – UK Human Rights Blog
‘The future of civil partnerships is again in the news. In October, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan tried to register a Civil Partnership at Chelsea Town Hall but were rebuffed on the grounds that the Civil Partnership Act 2004 reserves that status strictly for same sex couples. Their lawyer, Louise Whitfield of Deighton Pierce Glynn Solicitors has announced their intention to seek a judicial review and the couple have also started a petition.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 9th December 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Couple launch legal challenge against ban on heterosexual civil partnerships – The Guardian
‘Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan launch judicial review after trying to hold ceremony at town hall and being turned away.’
The Guardian, 2nd December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
New powers to tackle sham marriage announced – Home Office
‘Home Office will have more time to investigate suspected sham marriages.’
Home Office, 25th November 2014
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
Same sex couples – now with added marriage – Tanfield Chambers
‘MSSCA 2013 does not create a new status of “same sex marriage” 1 (SSM). It extends the
existing institution of marriage to same sex couples:
s.1 The marriage of same sex couples is lawful.
s.11(1) In the law of England and Wales, marriage has the same effect’
Full story (PDF)
Tanfield Chambers, 14th November 2014
Source: www.tanfieldchambers.co.uk
Notice period doubled from next spring for all marriages and civil partnerships – Free Movement
‘It has been announced today [24 November] by Minister for Security and Immigration James Brokenshire that Part 4 of the Immigration Act 2014 is to be brought into full effect on 2 March 2015. This amends the procedure for marriage and civil partnership for everyone (not just foreign nationals) and creates new powers for duties to report sham marriages and the investigation and preventing of sham marriages.’
Free Movement, 24th November 2014
Source: www.freemovement.org.uk
Lancashire sham marriages: Manchester gang jailed – BBC News
‘A Manchester gang which set up sham weddings between Pakistani grooms and Portuguese brides has been jailed.’
BBC News, 21st November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Sham marriage organiser jailed and bogus brides sentenced – BBC News
‘A woman who arranged sham marriages in Wales to help non-EU nationals obtain visas has been jailed for two years and nine months.’
BBC News, 17th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The Spywatcher – BBC Law in Action
‘The Intelligence Services Commissioner, Sir Mark Waller, gives Law In Action his first broadcast interview.
Sir Mark, a retired judge, is charged with judicial oversight of, among other organisations, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ.’
BBC Law in Action,
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
CPS to launch review after ‘shambolic’ fake marriage case collapses – The Independent
‘The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is to launch a full review of its procedures after a judge halted a case in which a vicar who was alleged to have operated a “conveyor belt” of sham marriages claimed that immigration officers concealed evidence and lied under oath.’
The Independent, 23rd October 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Finance & Divorce Update – Family Law
‘Jessica Craigs, senior solicitor and Amy Starnes solicitor, both of Mills & Reeve LLP analyse the financial remedies and divorce news and cases published by Family Law Week in August.’
Family Law Week, 5th September 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Mothers’ names to be added to UK marriage registers in equality move – The Guardian
‘The names of couples’ mothers are to be added to marriage registers for the first time as the government addresses “another inequality in marriage” by introducing the first reforms to the system in more than 150 years, David Cameron has announced.’
The Guardian, 18th August 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
