Following an enactment in 1967 which conferred specific jurisdiction to order a spouse to leave the home, a court could no longer make such an order pursuant to its general jurisdiction to grant an injunction. Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, Lord Chancellor, said: ‘where, as here, Parliament has spelt out in considerable detail what must be done in a particular class of case it is not open to litigants to bypass the special Act, nor to the courts to disregard its provisions by resorting to the earlier procedure, and thus choose to apply a different jurisprudence from that which the Act prescribes.’
Judges:
Lord Brandon of Oakbrook, Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, Lord Chancellor
Citations:
[1984] AC 174
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – In re NY (A Child) (Reunite International and others intervening) SC 30-Oct-2019
The father had applied for a summary order requiring the return of the daughter to Israel. The Court was asked to consider whether the Court of Appeal, having determined that such an order could not be granted under the Hague Convention on the Civil . .
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Family
Updated: 06 May 2022; Ref: scu.677002