The Weekly Law Reports
[1966] 2 WLR 993
[COURT OF APPEAL]
SHELDON
v.
SHELDON
1965 Nov. 11
1966 Feb. 21;
Mar. 31
1966 Feb. 21;
Mar. 31
LORD DENNING M.R., DAVIES and SALMON L.JJ.
Husband and Wife
— Cruelty
— Tests of
— Sexual intercourse, deprivation of
— Withdrawal from sexual intercourse
— Husband's persistent refusal of intercourse over long period after years of normal marriage
— Conduct causing injury to wife's health
— Conduct persisted in despite husband's knowledge of effect on wife's health
— Corroborating medical evidence
— Whether capable of constituting cruelty in absence of extenuating circumstances.