Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite. was delivered on 27 August 2010.
1. We begin by thanking counsel for their assistance. In the present case, the Court of Appeal proceeded on its understanding of the approach adopted by the English Court of Appeal in the case of Payne v. Payne [2001] 1 FLR 1052. There may come a time when the Court of Final Appeal will have to consider the true effect, and indeed the suitability for Hong Kong’s purposes, of that approach. But on the facts of the present case, we do not think that there is any real prospect of a different res