Carl Gardner
March 11, 2016
MPs are due today to debate the principle of Richard Bacon MP’s No-fault Divorce Bill.
What’s interesting about this bill is how very unradical it is. When we talk about “no fault divorce” most of us mean taking […]
Carl Gardner
October 14, 2015
In Sharland v Sharland, the Supreme Court today granted the appeal of a woman who wanted to reopen her divorce settlement on the grounds of her husband’s fraud. Here’s my technical legal analysis, in a […]
Carl Gardner
October 14, 2015
The Supreme Court has today given two judgments (Sharland v Sharland, and Gohil v Gohil) about re-opening divorce settlements on the grounds of fraud. Sharland lays down a new test in […]Carl Gardner
June 19, 2015
I met the campaigner Ellie Cumbo earlier this week to discuss her Ground of Divorce and Dissolution Bill, published here yesterday. We talked about why she wants to bring […]
Carl Gardner
June 18, 2015
First Reading is a new regular feature in which I ask campaigners, writers and thinkers what law they’d change, if they could table their own “private person’s bill” in Parliament. My first guest is the campaigner and policy […]