Posthumous courting

Sometimes love can conquer even the unimpassioned proceedings of the law courts

LAW REPORTS HAVE NEVER been ranked highly as a form of literature. And yet, within the printed volumes of higher casuistry, the careful reader may find stories of the human condition which would otherwise have escaped the written record, slices of the mundane forever etched on paper through the process of the law. Predominantly they are about greed and deceit; but even in a place as unpromising as the reports of the old Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division one can occasionally glean a love story. In October 1970, Mr Justice Bagnall, whose usual diet of cases consisted of ugly disputes involving matrimonial property, had an unusual application before him. A Gertrude Meyer sought a declaration that she had been married, and had always been married to Isaak Meyer, deceased. But…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2023

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