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Mohd. Ahmad Khan v. Shah Bano Begum [1985], [1] commonly referred to as the Shah Bano case, was a controversial maintenance lawsuit in India, in which the Supreme Court delivered a judgment favouring maintenance given to an aggrieved divorced Muslim woman.
After a hearing at the Melbourne Family Court, Justice Strickland delivered judgement setting aside the 1998 instrument, and ordered that Spry pay his wife the sum of ~$2,200,000. [2] Spry appealed against the decision. The Full Court of the Family Court dismissed the appeal by majority. In 2008 special leave was granted at the High Court. [3]
Since charges against them were substantiated beyond any reasonable doubt, the court set a judgement to punish the offenders, the son and son's wife of the complaint. The court ordered the complainant's son in the lawsuit to be fined, Taka. 80,000 / - and the son's wife, a fine of Taka. 70,000 / -.
It extends for the entire life of the divorced wife until she remarries. [7] In Shabana Bano v Imran Khan, the Supreme Court held that a Muslim divorced woman who has no means to maintain herself is entitled to get maintenance from her former husband even after the period of iddah and she can claim the same under S.125 CrPC. [8] [9]
Bwanya v Master of the High Court, Cape Town and Others is an important decision in the South African law of succession and particularly the law of intestate succession.It was decided by the Constitutional Court of South Africa on 31 December 2021 with a majority judgment written by Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga.
On 18 July 2008, Judge Dennis van Heerden of the High Court's Cape Provincial Division handed down judgment in favour of the applicant. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Applying the logic of the Constitutional Court's decision in Daniels v Campbell , and deferring also to "increasing legislative and judicial recognition" for customary marriages, he found that:
Gisèle Pélicot's ex-husband Dominique Pélicot, who was convicted of drugging his then-wife and inviting dozens of men to rape her over the course of nearly a decade, is being questioned about ...
Combe v Combe [1951] 2 KB 215 is a famous English contract law case on promissory estoppel.An ex-wife tried to take advantage of the principle that had been reintroduced in the High Trees case to enforce her husband's promise to give her maintenance.