CARR vs. CARR

JUDGMENT OF PREMPEH J. On the 2nd March, 1962, the petitioner filed in this court a petition for the dissolution of her marriage with the respondent herein and for other ancillary reliefs. After the respondent had been served with a copy of the petition he filed a reply in paragraph 1 of which he alleged as follows: “The respondent denies that the petitioner and the respondent were lawfully married under the Ordinance and will contend that the court has no jurisdiction.” When the matter came up before me on the 23rd August, 1963, for argument to settle this preliminary point, counsel for the respondent admitted that there was in fact a solemnisation of the marriage between the petitioner and the respondent by a minister of religion, but after referring to section 31 of the Marriage Ordinance,1 he contended that the provisions of this section of the Ordinance were not strictly complied with before the marriage was solemnised and that in those circumstances this court has no jurisd...