Last year, Richard Bacon MP introduced a Bill to Parliament under the Ten Minute Rule that would have provided for the introduction of divorce without fault. The Bill did not get a second reading, but gave welcome oxygen to the campaign by our family lawyers’ association Resolution that the time has come to stop the mud-slinging inherent in our outdated divorce process. The House of Commons library has just published a very helpful briefing paper on the subject so that MPs who come to consider the issue again can be fully informed. When we family lawyers talk about ‘no fault…
