The Law Reports (Family Division)
[2002] Fam 150
Court of Appeal
Bellinger
v
Bellinger (Attorney General intervening)
[2001] EWCA Civ 1140
2001 May 23,
24;
July 17
July 17
Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss P, Thorpe and Robert Walker LJJ
Husband and wife
— Nullity
— Capacity to marry
— Gender
— Wife correctly registered as male at birth
— Thereafter living as female and undergoing gender reassignment surgery
— Wife seeking declaration of validity of marriage
— Whether female or male for purposes of marriage
—
Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), s. 11