Read the full judgment text of CACV 000194/1996 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 23 January 1997.
1. The parties married in May 1980. I shall call them "husband" and "wife" for the purposes of this appeal. They had a son who is now twelve years old. A little over six years later in 1986 they separated. The judge was told that after divorce the wife would remarry the man she had been living with after she left her husband in 1986. There was a daughter born of the relationship between the wife and this man in about 1992. A decree nisi was pronounced in May 1994 on the ground of a five-year sep