Victoria Roberts led by Charles Hale QC appeared in an appeal against the decision of Mr Justice Williams to pronounce a decree nisi of nullity to an Islamic marriage where the ceremony had not taken place in a registered building.
Mr Justice Williams had said the court was justified in taking a ‘holistic view of a process rather than a single ceremony’. The Court of Appeal however said the ceremony was non-qualifying and so it did not create a void marriage.
A full report relating to the case can be found here:
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/couples-islamic-ceremony-did-not-create-a-marriage-court-of-appeal/5103098.article
The judgment is available here:
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2020/122.html
Victoria Roberts has wide-ranging expertise in Chancery and Commercial matters, Insolvency, Inquests and Matrimonial Finance. She was appointed to Attorney General’s Civil Regional Panel in 2018.
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Victoria is a member of the Business and Property Department at 18 St John Street Chambers. For more information, please click the links above or contact a member of the clerking team on 0161 278 8261 or via email businessproperty@18sjs.com