No Fault Divorces
The President of the High Court’s Family Division, Sir Nicholas Wall has said: “No fault divorces should become standard”. Sir Nicholas believes this would be better than the current procedure of proving that one side is responsible for the breakdown of a marriage.
Sir Nicholas Wall argues that the “time for allocating blame for the failure of a marriage, as encouraged by an adversarial court system, has now passed.”
This argument is based on the fact that society has now moved away from viewing divorce as shameful, and as a result there is no need for one party to be seen as the ‘innocent’ party to maintain their social status. As a result of society’s acceptance of Divorce, defended divorces are rare nowadays.
Sir Nicholas Wall first voiced his views on No Fault Divorces when he was a member of the Whitehall Advisory Group. The Whitehall Advisory Group backed No Fault Divorces in the Family Law Act 1996, however Tony Blair’s labour government dismissed the plan as it made “breaking up too easy.”
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