El Gamal v Al Maktoum [2011] EWHC B27 (Fam) (22 December 2011)

Petition for nullity, on the basis that the marriage was void by reason of its failure to comply with the formalities of marriage at English law. Held, there was a wholesale failure to comply with the formal requirements of English law, and this was not therefore a void marriage but a 'non-marriage'. Accordingly, the nullity petition was dismissed.

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