Renewed application for permission to appeal and for an extension of time for bringing an appeal. Action to recover gifts made on a marriage, and against order for payment of a dowry. A muslim religious ceremony had taken place but no civil ceremony. The marriage was not consummated, and a nikah decree of divorce pronounced only shortly after.
Held: Leave to appeal was refused. The arrangements were by way of an enforceable contract. Under Sharia law, the gifts and arrangements were absolute and not returnable or deductible. The judge had also clearly preferred the evidence of the respondents.
Mummery LJ
[2009] EWCA Civ 1205
Bailii
England and Wales
Family
Updated: 02 November 2021; Ref: scu.380342