Boughajdim v Hayoukane (2022)

Charles Hale KC and Frankie Shama successfully represented the Petitioner wife in Boughajdim v Hayoukane [2022] EWHC 2673 (Fam). Mr Justice MacDonald considered the question of whether the Petitioner’s divorce petition should be allowed to proceed in this jurisdiction, based on a marriage that has been recognised by the Moroccan court and registered in Morocco pursuant to legislation designed to provide retrospective recognition of marriage in that jurisdiction.

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