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[2022] WLR(D) 431
Court of Appeal
Parveen
v
Hussain
[2022] EWCA Civ 1434
2022 June 16;
Nov 4
Moylan, Asplin, Stuart-Smith LJJ
Husband and Wife— Divorce— Foreign decree, recognition of— Wife’s previous marriage dissolved by transnational divorce recognised in Pakistan and wife subsequently marrying second husband in Pakistan— Whether non-recognition in English law of foreign decree of talaq between wife and first husband determinative of wife’s capacity to marry again— Whether second marriage in Pakistan a nullity—
Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), ss 11, 14
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Family Law Act 1986 (c 55), ss 45, 50