The Law Reports (Family Division)
[2019] Fam 247
Family Court
Akhter
v
Khan (Attorney General intervening)
[2018] EWFC 54
2018 Feb 5,
6;
July 12, 13; 31
July 12, 13; 31
Williams J
Marriage— Validity— Void marriage— Islamic marriage ceremony not complying with statutory requirements— Parties subsequently living as married couple for many years— Whether presumption that parties undergoing valid marriage ceremony during years of cohabitation— Whether Islamic ceremony giving rise to void marriage or wholly invalid marriage— Whether jurisdiction to grant decree of nullity—
Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), s 11(a)(iii) (as amended by Marriage Act 1983 (c 32), s 12(1), Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 (c 16), s 6(4) and Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) and Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014 (SI 2014/3168), Sch 1, para 6(2))
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