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Can't imagine why she or her solicitors should be "devastated" at the judgment. The criteria for getting a divorce have been pretty clear for a long time. If she was given poor legal advice she should bring a negligence claim. If correct advice, she has only herself to thank. So far as I can see, she wanted to make out that her husband's objecting to her adultery was in itself "unreasonable behaviour" - an argument fit only for Alice in Wonderland. As Lord Wilson pointed out, if she waits another two years (or if she'd troubled to separate two years sooner, for that matter) she'd be a free woman now. Parliament can if it wishes legislate to make divorce quicker; but at all events it's infinitely easier, as we are finding out, to divorce your spouse than to divorce Brussels.