A senior High Court judge has suggested that couples could be committing accidental bigamy after he cancelled 21 divorces organised by a disgraced former barrister. Sir James Munby, the president of the High Court’s family division, said Khalik Bhatoo used false addresses on the divorce petitions and had forged signatures and filled out forms on
Couples will be able to apply for divorce online as part of a £1 billion reform of the justice system. The scheme is being tested at three sites in the UK and is due to be extended to other centres in the coming months, the Ministry of Justice said. It is part of a £1bn
The Court of Appeal allowed a husband’s appeal against an order made by a Family Division judge that he should pay his wife a lump sum even though a Russian court had previously made a consent order following Russian divorce proceedings in which they both had legal representation. Following an evaluation of all the relevant
Princess Tessy of Luxembourg is splitting from her husband Prince Louis following an 11 year marriage. Princess Tessy is now facing accusations of being a ‘gold digger’ after she launched divorce proceedings in the London courts. Princess Tessie, 31, arrived for an initial hearing last week at the Royal Courts of Justice, in a bid
An entrepreneur said to be worth more than £200million is ‘pleading poverty,’ according to his estranged wife’s divorce lawyers. The High Court heard that Andy Ruhan’s fortune was so large ‘it’s impossible to quantify.’ The 55-year-old who once owned 37 Thistle Hotels and sat on the board of the Lotus Formula One team,
A leading divorce lawyer is campaigning for no-fault divorce and has taken her campaign directy to Conservative Party members. Ayesha Vardag, founder of London firm Vardags, pleaded her case to delegates at the party conference to lobby their MPs and bring out a change in the law. Vardag, as reported by the Law Gazette, she
A wealthy businessman claims his former “wife” is not entitled to a share in a £1.1 billion fortune as he alledges they were never legally married. Asif Aziz said he and his estranged wife Tagilde Aziz were both born abroad and obtained a “fake” marriage certificate so a child they had adopted could get a