Results: 50

• Crossley v Crossley

  11 Mar 1953 [1953] P 97, PDA

  11 Mar 1953 [1953] 2 WLR 765, PDA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 2.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Custody — Subsequent adoption of child
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Custody — Subsequent adoption of child — Whether custody order superseded by adoption order — Adoption Act, 1950 (14 Geo. 6, c. 26), s. 10.

  2 Statutes considered

• Ridley v Ridley

  04 Mar 1953 [1953] P 150, PDA

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Justices — Maintenance
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Justices — Maintenance — Wilful neglect to maintain — Neglect in respect of wife but not of child — Jurisdiction to make orders in respect of both — Matrimonial Causes Act, 1950 (14 Geo. 6, c. 25), s. 23.

  1 Statute considered
• Tindall v Tindall

  17 Dec 1952 [1953] P 63; [1953] 2 WLR 158; [1953] 1 All ER 139, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 1.
  NULLITY — Marriage not consummated — Incapacity of husband
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  NULLITY — Marriage not consummated — Incapacity of husband — Wife, knowing facts and law as to nullity, brings proceedings before justices — Desertion by husband and his persistent cruelty alleged — Summons dismissed — Appeal — Husband ordered to give security for costs — Appeal dismissed — Husband's petition for divorce on ground of desertion — Wife, by answer, prays for decree of nullity — Approbation of marriage by wife — Public policy.
• Richards v Richards

  [1952] P 307, CA

  [1953] P 36, DC

  07 Jun 1972 [1972] 1 WLR 1073; [1972] 3 All ER 695, Fam D

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive. Subsequent citations: 4.
  DIVORCE — Desertion — Subsequent adultery

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Justices — Persistent cruelty

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Respondent's behaviour
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  DIVORCE — Desertion — Subsequent adultery — Whether desertion conduct conducing — Termination of desertion by adultery — Burden of proof.

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Justices — Persistent cruelty — Dismissal of previous summons — Evidence of allegations prior to that dismissal.

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Respondent's behaviour — Mental illness — Respondent mentally ill for one year prior to presentation of petition — Mental illness to be considered in deciding whether unreasonable to expect petitioner to live with respondent — Divorce Reform Act 1969, s 2 (1) (b)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Thomas Stone Shipping Ltd v Admiralty

  10 Dec 1952 [1953] P 117, CA

  SHIPPING — Collision — Hull of aircraft carrier (in tow) with steamship
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  SHIPPING — Collision — Hull of aircraft carrier (in tow) with steamship — Aircraft carrier alone to blame — Defective port side light — Whether bound to exhibit “not-under-command” lights — Defective planning in putting to sea in conditions indicated by falling barometer — Failure to broadcast warnings to shipping — Liability — Apportionment between shipbuilding contractors and towage subcontractors — Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (S.R. & O., 1910, No. 1113), arts. 4 and 29 — Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), s. 419 (1).

  1 Statute considered
• Worboys v Worboys

  04 Mar 1953 [1953] P 192; [1953] 2 WLR 901; [1953] 1 All ER 857, PDA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 1.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Practice
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Practice — Service — Order for security — Power to direct substituted service of order — R.S.C., Ord. 67, r. 6 — Matrimonial Causes Rules, 1950 (S.I. 1950, No. 1940) (L.27), rr. 62 (2), 80.

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• In Re St John The Divine, Richmond

  16 Mar 1953 [1953] P 155, Const Ct

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Principal or high altar — Faculty to substitute altar made of stone for one made of wood
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  ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Principal or high altar — Faculty to substitute altar made of stone for one made of wood — Altar to stand in chancel and must be movable — No doctrinal significance attachable to the material used in construction — The 82nd canon — Rubric in the book of Common Prayer.
• Sealey (orse Callan) v Callan

  20 Mar 1953 [1953] P 135, PDA

  20 Mar 1953 [1953] 2 WLR 910, PDA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 3.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Conflict of jurisdiction
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Conflict of jurisdiction — Wife's petition in England — Husband's divorce proceedings abroad in court of domicile — Application to stay English proceedings — Matrimonial Causes Act, 1950 (14 Geo. 6, c. 25), ss. 1, 4, 18 (1) (b) — Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 41.

  2 Statutes considered
• Cooper v Cooper

  [1953] P 26, DC

  11 Jun 1964 [1964] 1 WLR 1323; [1964] 3 All ER 167, PDA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive. Subsequent citations: 1.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Justices — Conflict with jurisdiction of High Court

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Pleading

  VOID OR VOIDABLE — Pleading — Petition for divorce
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Justices — Conflict with jurisdiction of High Court — Wilful neglect to maintain — Existence of decree of judicial separation — Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 190 (4) — Matrimonial Causes Act, 1950 (14 Geo. 6, c. 25), s. 20 (2).

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Pleading — Previous proceedings — First petition on file — Second petition filed without leave of a judge — Whether a nullity — Jurisdiction of court to give retrospective leave for filing second petition — Matrimonial Causes Rules, 1957, r 3 (2) (as amended by Matrimonial Causes (Amendment) Rules, 1961, r 2)

  VOID OR VOIDABLE — Pleading — Petition for divorce — Failure to obtain leave to file second petition — First petition on file — Whether filing of second petition irregularity or a nullity — Matrimonial Causes Rules, 1957, r 2

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Swan v Swan

  30 Jul 1953 [1953] P 258, DC

  30 Jul 1953 [1953] 3 WLR 591, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Cruelty
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Cruelty — Insanity — Whether insanity a defence to a charge of cruelty — Condonation.