Stevens v Stevens (1965)

Subject Matter

HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Rehearing — Application for — Applicant aware of proceedings — Decision not to defend — Mental stress at time of proceedings — Decree nisi granted in undefended suit — Applicant to satisfy court decree contrary to justice of case — Advice not to appeal against decree nisi — Decree made absolute — Whether time and opportunity for appealing against decree — “Appeal” — Whether application to set aside decree on appeal — Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, s 31 (1) (e) — Matrimonial Causes Rules, 1957, r 36 (1)

[1965] P 147; [1965] 2 WLR 736