Owens v Owens [2018] UKSC 41: A Decision Divorced From Reality? The judgment by the Supreme Court in Owens v Owens [2018] UKSC 41

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Owens v Owens [2018] UKSC 41: A Decision Divorced From Reality?

The judgment by the Supreme Court in Owens v Owens [2018] UKSC 41 may have come to some as a somewhat shocking aberration to accepted norms; the decision to defend divorce proceedings understood commonly as a fruitless task for many respondents.   However, what the Supreme Court have done, whether rightly or wrongly, is to peel back the plasters stuck over the cracks of legislative failure, and put the ball back into Parliament’s court.