The 2022 weddings report: from buildings to officiants
The Law Commission’s report proposed a change in the unit of regulation. A recommendation and its implementation need separate histories.
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Overseas divorce and the structure of the 1986 Act
Part II of the Family Law Act 1986 is a starting point for separating the place of a divorce, the process used and the question of recognition.
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Marriage registration: separate the steps in the 1949 Act
A ceremony, the preliminaries and the registration record belong to related parts of the statutory scheme. Combining them in one word can obscure the issue.
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The 2018 sharia review and the importance of its remit
The independent review’s remit and recommendations give it a particular place in the debate about sharia councils in England and Wales.
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Aleem v. Aleem: recognition, public policy and property
The Maryland judgment belongs to a particular procedural history. Its treatment of an overseas divorce cannot be understood from the word talaq alone.
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Akhter v. Khan: read the case through the appeal
Why a discussion of the 2018 marriage case needs a second date: the Court of Appeal's decision of 14 February 2020.
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