Index card Chaudhary v Chaudhary

Chaudhary v Chaudhary

Hearings

England & Wales

31 Jul 1984 [1985] Fam 19; [1985] 2 WLR 350; [1984] 3 All ER 1017, CA

(pet dis) [1985] 2 WLR 375c, HL(E)

Subject Matter

HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Foreign decree, recognition of — Talaq divorce — Pakistani nationals acquiring domicile of choice in England — Husband travelling to Kashmir to pronounce talaq — Talaq pronounced in Kashmir having legal effect in Pakistan — Whether talaq “judicial or other proceedings” recognised in United Kingdom — Whether recognition to be refused as contrary to public policy — Recognition of Divorces and Legal Separations Act 1971, ss 2(a), 8(2)(b) (as amended by Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973, ss 2(4), 15(2))

[1985] Fam 19; [1985] 2 WLR 350

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