Read the full judgment text of DCMP 000090/1976 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment.
1. In this matter the applicant asks for a declaration that a validated modern marriage exists between himself and the Respondent. The Respondent has not appeared at the hearing of this application. The application is made under Section 9(3) of the Marriage Reform Ordinance, Cap. 178, which allows a party to a “validated marriage” to, where the other party refuses to join in the application, apply to the District Court for a declaration that the marriage subsists. A “validated marriage” is defin