Are our higher courts prejudiced against the role of the married woman?

Ashley Murray

Barrister Oriel Chambers Liverpool:

The fairness of our legal system is acknowledged around the world. Yet at the heart of our domestic law of capital and income distribution upon divorce the married woman remains by reason of historical and cultural reasons in cases where resources exceed 'needs' the most likely spouse to recover a less than equal share of the parties' post divorce assets. The married woman is also the most vulnerable of the married parties to any failure of the judicial system to recognise her 'needs' when set against the opportunities which each will have upon marital breakdown following divorce. After many years in practice as a family law barrister Ashley Murray in an unapologetic analysis which traces the struggle for justice of the married woman before English law from the birth of Christendom to William the Conqueror through Tudor times to the women's rights movements of Victoria's reign and on to the present day challenges the current approach by our higher judiciary in the formulation of the...

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