All Flashcards
‘Decent burial’
Law commission
Law commission aim of divorce
- Buttress rather than undermine
2. Maximum fairness, minimum bitterness, distress and humiliation
‘Streets ahead’
Marianne Taylor
England 2015
60% fault based- Liz Trinder
Scotland 2015
6%- Scot govt civil justice stats
‘Little public appetite’
Elaine Sutherland
High profile legal figures
Lord Wilson, Sir James Munby, Lady Hale
‘Unnecessary bitterness’
- law commission
- counter productive
Nuffield foundation
Lack of honesty in England, needs reform
‘There may, in some cases, be an unnecessary dredging up of incidents which would best be forgotten’
Gwynn Davis
Owens v Owens
‘A very unhappy situation’
Wait 5 years
‘A flexible beast that subscribes to this pragmatic way of thinking’
Marianne Taylor
Compromise between IB and misconduct, full implications of non-fault theory ignored
Joe Thomson
‘Reconciliation should be attempted where there is a prospect of success.’
Final Report of Denning Commission