A High Court judge has decided that an estranged couple’s Islamic faith marriage falls within the scope of English matrimonial law. Solicitor Nasreen Akhter and businessman Mohammed Shabaz Khan, took part in an Islamic wedding ceremony in a London restaurant in 1998. Mrs Akhter says the nikah ceremony was conducted by an imam before about
A woman who was seeking a divorce after a 40 year marriage has lost her case. Supreme court judges “reluctantly” told Tini Owens that she must remain married because a joyless marriage is not adequate grounds for a divorce if one spouse refuses to agree. Five judges unanimously upheld rulings by a family court and
The Supreme Court has ruled that a man does not have to increase the maintenance payments to his former wife, 16 years after their divorce. Last year Graham Mills was ordered by the Court of Appeal to increase monthly maintenance payments to his former wife, Maria, from £1,100 per month to £1,441 for life as
A woman says she wants her ex-husband jailed after he spent more than £80,000 on his latest wedding even though he claimed he cannot afford to pay her. Sarah Rogan said her ex-husband Grant Rogan should be committed to prison for breaching an agreement made following the breakdown of their 10-year marriage. Ms Rogan has
An ex-wife has been granted £115million in one of the UK’s biggest ever divorce settlements. The woman and her former husband cannot be named for legal reasons after Justice Baker concluded there was “little if any” public interest in identifying the chief executive of a company behind a “very well-known product.” The case was heard
The Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett delivered a speech on ‘the age of reform’, at the fifth BAILII lecture. He discussing the courts modernisation programme and highlighted the online divorce pilot scheme, saying that it was ‘working well.’ “The (online divorce) pilot has now moved to general availability since 1 May. Over 600 applications were
The Supreme Court considered whether a businessman should increase maintenance to his former wife 16 years after their divorce. Last year Graham Mills was ordered by the Court of Appeal to increase monthly maintenance payments to his former wife, Maria, from £1,100 per month to £1,441 for life as she was “unable to support her
The Courts Service will develop its new online divorce family law service following the online divorce pilot. Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) have already started enabling people to issue divorce petitions online. HMCTS divorce service manager Adam Lennon said, “Now that the application part of the divorce process is online we will, over the
The former wife of an aristocrat will be divorcing her ex-husband in English courts even though they spent almost all their married life in Scotland. Charles Villiers, 55, has accused his ex-wife, Emma of ‘trying it on’ in the English courts as a cross-border divorce tourist. Mr Villiers added that if she won her
The Supreme Court will decide whether a woman can divorce her husband even though he contested the move. The case of Tini Owens, 67 and her husband Hugh, 78 has raised questions about whether there should be an overhaul of the divorce law in England and Wales. Mrs Owens said her marriage had broken down