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Decrees nisi were just such routine matters removed from the District Judges’ box work and directed to Court staff, which was intended to free up judges’ time. We then needed the intervention of the President of the Family Division to issue his PRESIDENT’S GUIDANCE (INTERIM) DEFECTIVE DIVORCE PETITIONS/DECREES, to deal with the unforeseen consequence of void decrees, that had escaped proper scrutiny, and their impact on e.g. remarriages.

So as much as we ‘free up judges’ time’ we find consequential issues to fill that time, which will be a comfort to those litigation practitioners who will have to sort out the mess!

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