The Weekly Law Reports
[1981] 2 WLR 759
[COURT OF APPEAL]
PURSE
v.
PURSE
1980 Dec. 1,
2,
3;
19
Sir John Arnold P., Ormrod and Dunn L.JJ.
Husband and Wife
— Divorce
— Decree absolute
— Death of party
— Decree voidable
— Death of Petitioner
— Jurisdiction of Court of Appeal to set aside decrees absolute and nisi
Husband and Wife
— Divorce
— Petition
— Dispensing with service
— Insufficient inquiries to discover respondent's whereabouts
— Whether irregularity rendering subsequent decrees nisi and absolute voidable
— Discretion to set aside after petitioner's death
—
Matrimonial Causes Rules 1977 (S.I. 1977 No. 344 (L. 6)), r. 14