A week of retractions and rewrites – and a “Psalm Sunday” reminder from the Newark MP

Overseas marriages

On Tuesday, in answer to a written question from Richard Holden (Basildon and Billericay, Con) asking the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy not to recognise overseas marriages that would be illegal under UK law, Jake Richards, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the MoJ, said this:

”There are no plans to change the law that an overseas marriage is normally recognised in England and Wales if it complied with the requirements for the form of the ceremony where it took place (meaning by whom, where, when and how it was conducted) and if both parties had capacity to marry according to the law of their domicile.”

One cannot help wondering what occasioned the question in the first place.

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