Chetwynd-Talbot v Chetwynd-Talbot

Subject Matter

FRAUD — Fraud to court (discretion to refuse order) — Divorce — Discretion statement — Failure to make — Adultery proved in earlier proceedings — Adultery denied — No proof of perjury

[1963] P 436; [1963] 3 WLR 1

HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Discretion — Failure to pray for exercise — Denial of adultery by petitioner — Petitioner found in previous proceedings to have committed adultery — Denial maintained — No discretion statement — Whether necessary to amend petition — Whether court a discretion to grant decree — Matrimonial Causes Rules, 1957, rr 4, 28

[1963] P 436; [1963] 3 WLR 1