The Family Division of the High Court has devised means through which they will quickly dispose of cases in a bid to dispose of the huge backlog.
The quick disposal will now be premised on the Civil Procedural Rules of 2019, in which a case has to be heard 28 days from the date of all the pre-trial paper work.
The case will end if lawyers representing the aggrieved party fail to take action and have the matter heard after the prescribed 28 days.
“The Family Division will strictly comply with the provisions of the above rules, and advocates are hereby reminded to take out summons for directions as stipulated in the rules. Otherwise, suits will automatically abate,” reads in part the April 9 memo signed off by the Assistant Registrar, Ms Hellen Ajio, and addressed to all advocates.
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Villiers, who was 31 at the time of the marriage, claims that the couple were unable to conceive more children after their daughter was born and speculates he may have married under false pretences , believing his wife to be younger than she was.
He told The Sunday Times: I m left in the situation that my wife might still try to claim millions of pounds off me, solely owing to the fact that we were married when, arguably, she married me under false pretences as I believed she was in her thirties, not in her forties in 1994, almost past child-bearing.