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JQ v IQ [2025] EWFC 192 (B)
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https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/192
HHJ Vincent. A Pakistani divorce was deemed to be valid in the UK on public policy grounds and permission was granted for the wife to bring financial remedies proceedings in this jurisdiction.
This hearing concerned the
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https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/3193
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HK v SS [2025] EWFC 5 (B)
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https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/5
HHJ Simmonds, National Lead Judge for Divorce. Guidance on when a delay between conditional order being made, and application for a final order, is delay sufficient to cause the court to question whether a final order
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