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Divorce case location: Aussie appeal court orders rehearing
It says Melbourne judge erred in deciding on venue, ordering woman to stop S'pore proceedings
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The Family Justice Courts in Singapore. In a rare move, an Australian appeal court ordered the rehearing over whether the divorce-linked issues of an expat couple should be heard in a Singapore or Melbourne court to be conducted before another judge. The wife in the case is based here.
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An Australian appeal court has ordered a rehearing over whether the divorce-linked issues of an expatriate couple should be heard in a Singapore or Melbourne court.
The three-judge appeal panel ruled that the primary family justice court judge in Melbourne had erred in ordering that the case be heard there and also that the Singapore-based wife stop divorce proceedings she had started in Singapore's Family Justice Courts (FJC) in 2019.
