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Nigel Dyer QC's take on divorce in the Supreme Court

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Date:11 FEB 2019
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Durham Law School recently hosted leading family law silk Nigel Dyer QC - from 1 Hare Court - who offered his reflections on this significant case of Owens v Owens.

In July 2018 the U.K. Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision in Owens v Owens [2018] UKSC 41. Attracting extensive media coverage, the judgment saw the Justices unanimously refuse to grant a divorce to Mrs Owens who petitioned on the basis that her husband’s behaviour was such that she could not reasonably be expected to live with him.


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