What the actual fuck?!?!?
One of the judges is a woman?! How can she uphold this level of bullshit?!?
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Literally moved next door (they’re rich and own a farming hamlet)
Definitely a sitcom.
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She sat as an appeal judge. All she could decide is whether the original judge erred in law: judging the judgment, not reconsidering the original evidence.
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Oh okay…still doesn’t make it any better though
Can I complain to Bugs about his crappy sawing? He left Oxford and London attached to England and Wales.
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… Archy? What about him?
The wigs are traditional. Tradition… the root of not just a few problems.
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Just great. Now it’ll take me all day to get Mouret’s “Rondeau” out of my head.
In practice, it’s not often as bad as this. According to the written judgment, only 0.01% of divorces are defended - usually one party agrees to be ‘at fault’ and they get on with it. The oddity here was that the husband refused to ‘lose’, and the wife couldn’t demonstrate behaviour so egregious as to be legally ‘unreasonable’.
As I said, let’s hope this anomaly prompts Parliament (not judges!) to change the law.
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You’re missing my little winking emoji, which is meant to suggest I am not serious, and perhaps skewed by my own bitterness. I don’t think one needs any reason to get a divorce.
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I think I like Justice Hallett. Her concurrence leaves little doubt that she thinks that this is one of those cases where the law is an ass
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doesn’t guarantee catching it though!
I thought “Fiddler on the Roof” thoroughly explored that tradition can be problematic. Have we learned nothing?!?
tears clothing
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The fact that we here recognize what is problematic shows that we have learned something.
resews torn clothing
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But… do you love me?
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What’s sad is that if he had said any of these remarks on the tube she’d be free and clear. They take the whole no talking thing very seriously.
*tuts aggressively*
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At the risk of earning a certain badge:
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Leader of the pack-triarchy.
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America may only be slightly less miserable than her spouse at present, but I have a spare room if she’d like to try for that 5 years.
And here I was thinking that my own divorce would have been much easier if California wasn’t a no-fault state. The multiple counts of adultery would have probably been enough, but for the icing on the cake, his attorney threatened me. On my answering machine. The judge didn’t even need to hear the tape.
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Ah! Fair enough! 
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