Smug post
written by John Bolch
on Friday, July 27, 2007
Just a quick footnote to my rant about the misuse of the term 'registry office' from a few months back. Today I found out that the divorce petition in one of my matters (prepared by the other side I hasten to add) was rejected by the court, one of the reasons being that the term 'registry office' had been used when it should be 'register office'. So perhaps I wasn't just being pedantic after all...
July 27, 2007 9:52 AM
Good grief?! Take it to the CA
July 27, 2007 10:02 AM
Yes, I did wonder if it would still have been rejected if there was nothing else wrong with it...
July 28, 2007 5:09 PM
Your judge would have to rule a sizeable proportion of the British registration services out of order, too. (See my comment on your "rant").
What is the difference between a prescriptivist and Sisyphus?
(Any suggestions?)
July 28, 2007 6:50 PM
The point about the judge requiring the petition to be amended is that that paragraph in the petition must match the wording in the marriage certificate, which obviously it did not.
As for your question, I'll leave that to someone more learned than me to answer!