Articles by ‘Simon Bassett’

An increase in divorce fees is among the changes to civil courts which were this week roundly criticised by senior Judges.

A second reading of the No Fault Divorce Bill has been put back to March 11 this year.

The Ministry of Justice has issued an apology for the blunder which meant that the financial assets of more than 3,500 divorcing couples were miscalculated.

A man this week urged UK ministers to intervene after learning that his late husband would be recorded as having “never married” on the death certificate issued in Australia.

A landmark legal challenge claiming the government’s position on civil partnerships is incompatible with equality law is to be heard today in the High Court. Currently civil partnerships are only open to same-sex couples.

A flamboyant Saudi billionaire has succeeded in his latest attempt to use diplomatic immunity to avoid a multimillion-pound divorce claim from his supermodel ex-wife after the Foreign and Commonwealth Office failed to have it waived.

According to research conducted by John Haskey – a senior fellow at the University of Oxford – 5,300 couples in England and Wales chose to convert their civil partnership to a marriage during the first six months of 2015.

An academic study which was presented to Parliament last week has warned that law-makers must take action against “discriminatory religious laws” which may prevent women from ending a marriage.

A judgement in the Irish High Court last month may have significant implications for international divorce practice.

33-year-old Vernon Poppleton, from Glasgow, has pleaded guilty to sending his brother to provide a DNA sample in his place, so he could avoid child maintenance costs.

The family law association Resolution has warned that widespread media coverage of the so-called “Divorce Day” risks trivialising marital break-ups.

The number of wives seeking a divorce within five years of marriage has dropped over the last three decades, research indicates.