{"title":"Voidable marriages","authors":"Nicholas Mostyn","doi":"10.1017/s0956618x2300073x","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article critiques the decision of the Court of Appeal in <jats:italic>Re SA (Declaration of Non-Recognition of Marriage)</jats:italic> [2023] EWCA Civ 1003. In <jats:italic>Re SA</jats:italic> the Court of Appeal held that: (1) by operation of section 16 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, a voidable marriage is not void at its inception and is therefore not caught by section 58(5)(a) of the Family Law Act 1986, and (2) the effect of section 16 of the 1973 Act is that a voidable marriage starts off fully valid but only on making a decree absolute of nullity becomes invalid. This article contends that the approach adopted by the Court of Appeal in <jats:italic>SA</jats:italic> is conceptually challenging, based on a misreading of the statutory language, and is directly contrary to long-established and powerful authorities.","PeriodicalId":53956,"journal":{"name":"Ecclesiastical Law Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ecclesiastical Law Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956618x2300073x","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"RELIGION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article critiques the decision of the Court of Appeal in Re SA (Declaration of Non-Recognition of Marriage) [2023] EWCA Civ 1003. In Re SA the Court of Appeal held that: (1) by operation of section 16 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, a voidable marriage is not void at its inception and is therefore not caught by section 58(5)(a) of the Family Law Act 1986, and (2) the effect of section 16 of the 1973 Act is that a voidable marriage starts off fully valid but only on making a decree absolute of nullity becomes invalid. This article contends that the approach adopted by the Court of Appeal in SA is conceptually challenging, based on a misreading of the statutory language, and is directly contrary to long-established and powerful authorities.
本文对上诉法院在 Re SA (Declaration of Non-Recognition of Marriage) [2023] EWCA Civ 1003 一案中的判决进行了评论。在 Re SA 一案中，上诉法院认为(1) 根据《1973 年婚姻诉讼法》第 16 条的规定，可撤销的婚姻在开始时并非无效，因此不受《1986 年家庭法》第 58(5)(a)条的约束；以及 (2) 《1973 年婚姻诉讼法》第 16 条的效果是，可撤销的婚姻在开始时完全有效，但只有在作出无效的绝对判决时才会无效。本文认为，南澳大利亚州上诉法院采用的方法在概念上具有挑战性，其依据是对法律语言的误读，并且直接违背了长期以来确立的有力权威。
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