03 July 2020
Supreme Court ruling will ‘encourage divorce tourism’
John Darnton Consultant
A dissenting Supreme Court judge has criticised a ruling for giving wives ‘untrammelled licence’ to go forum-shopping.
In a majority ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that divorce proceedings in Scotland and an application for financial relief in England were not ‘related proceedings’ for the purposes of EU law.
John Darnton, Consultant, in our family and matrimonial team discusses this in an article for Solicitors Journal.
The full article is available, here.
