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Article: Law report: Consent order effectively made
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 3, 1994
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A consent order for a clean break settlement approved by a
registrar before decree nisi, on the footing that such approval
would not become the subject of any court order until after the
pronouncement of decree nisi, was a valid order.
The Court of Appeal allowed a husband's appeal from Mr Justice
Singer's decision that a consent order was a nullity.
Following the marriage breakdown, the spouses and their legal
advisers negotiated a clean break settlement of their financial
claims. The registrar approved and initialled the draft consent
order a few days before the decree nisi was pronounced. A month
later, the consent order was perfected and sealed. It was assigned
the date of the ...