The Law Reports (Family Division)
[1985] Fam 19
[COURT OF APPEAL]
CHAUDHARY
v.
CHAUDHARY
1983 Feb. 21,
22;
March 3, 4;
May 13
1984 July 16, 17; 31
March 3, 4;
May 13
1984 July 16, 17; 31
Wood J. Cumming-Bruce, Oliver L.JJ. and Balcombe J.
Husband and Wife
— Divorce
— Foreign decree, recognition of
— Talaq divorce
— Pakistan nationals acquiring domicile of choice in England
— Husband travelling to Kashmir to pronounce talaq
— Talaq pronounced in Kashmir having legal effect in Pakistan
— Whether talaq “judicial or other proceedings” recognised in United Kingdom
— Whether recognition to be refused as contrary to public policy
—
Recognition of Divorces and Legal Separations Act 1971 (c. 53), ss. 2(a), 8(2)(b) (as amended by Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973 (c. 45), ss. 2(4), 15(2))