B. v B

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1961
CourtProbate, Divorce and Admiralty Division
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9 cases
  • P. v P
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 December 1970
    ...8The history of the judicial decision on this point is this. A similar case came before Mr. Justice Scarman in 1961. It is reported as B. -v- B. in 1961 1 Weekly Law Reports, 856. What happened there was that by an oversight the learned Judge who granted the decree nisi of divorce made no ......
  • The Adoption Act 1958 and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 December 1976
    ...the failure of the court to obey this statutory requirement was so fundamental that it rendered the decree absolute "void": ( B v. B 1961 2 All E.R. 396) and ( N v. N 1964) 108 Sol. Jo. 99). These decisions were followed by Mr. Justice Cairns, with much doubt and reluctance, in ( P v. P and......
  • Cowley v Manson Timber Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 3 November 1994
    ...May J (as he then was) in London Transport Executive v. Clarke [1980] ICR 532. 39 Lord Coulsfield also referred to Scarman J's judgment in B. v. B [1961] 2 All ER 396 where he considered the question of a decree for divorce or nullity of marriage. He said this: 40 "I agree that prior author......
  • Procope v Procope
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • High Court (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 13 October 1986
    ...Act 1958 replaced by section 33 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1965 and cases decided based on those pieces of legislation namely:– 6 B v. B [1961] 2 All E.R. 396 7 F v. F [1970] 1 All E.R. 200 8 Section 47 (1), (2) and (3) of the Act provide as follows:– “47.(1) The court shall not ma......
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