Divorce in UK Law
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Ladd v Marshall
... ... The hearing was on the 12th March of this year. On the previous day Mrs Marshall had filed a petition for divorce against her husband on the ground of his adultery. She was called into the witness box and this is what she said: “Excuse me, my Lord, I ... ...
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Gosling v Gosling
... ... 3 Armed with this confession statement the wife presented a petition for divorce dated the 20th March 1964, but not filed till the 12th May of that year. On the 2nd September 1964 the husband obtained a legal aid certificate for ... ...
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Calderbank v Calderbank
... ... In the Matter of an Application For Ancillary Relief in the Divorce Suit ... Between Jacqueline Anne Calderbank (Now Richardson) Petitioner/Appellant and John Thomas Calderbank ... ...
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Watt (or Thomas) v Thomas
... ... Lord Stevenson) reversing the decision of the Lord Ordinary (Lord Patrick), who refused to grant to the Respondent, the husband, a decree of divorce on the ground of his wife's cruelty. The main ground for this reversal was that the members of the Court of Session took a different view from that ... ...
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White v White
... ... 1 Divorce creates many problems. One question always arises. It concerns how the property of the husband and wife should be divided and whether one of them ... ...
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Miller v Miller (Short Marriage: Clean break)
... ... 1 These two appeals concern that most intractable of problems: how to achieve fairness in the division of property following a divorce. In White v White [2001] 1 AC 596 your Lordships' House sought to assist judges who have the difficult task of exercising the wide discretionary ... ...
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Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd
... ... 1 This appeal arises out of proceedings for ancillary relief following a divorce. The principal parties before the judge, Moylan J, were Michael and Yasmin Prest. He was born in Nigeria and she in England. Both have dual Nigerian ... ...
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Gooday v Gooday
... ... 2 This is an appeal by leave of the learned judge from an order which he made upon the dismissal of the divorce petition by a legally aided wife whereby he ordered that the petitioner should pay £200 towards the respondent's costs, that £50 of that sum should ... ...
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Thoday v Thoday
... ... by Mr Registrar Russell a nd struck out certain paragraphs of the Answer filed on behalf of a wife in a suit instited by her husband for divorce on the ground of desertion. The two paragraphs in question were paragraphs which raised, first, a plea of just cause for the separation, and ... ...
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Wachtel v Wachtel
... ... The husband is a dentist in good practice. On 31st March, 1972, there left the home. On 21st July, 1972, there was a divorce on the ground that the marriage had irretrievably broken down. In consequence many things have to be settled. The parties have made arrangements or ... ...
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