Significance: Singapore High Court held that a person who has been divorced in a foreign court and was married under Muslim Law cannot, under the present wording of the Women’s Charter and the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, apply to either the civil courts or the syariah courts for financial relief post-divorce.
Case Update: Haniszah bte Atan v Zainordin bin Mohd [2016] SGHCF 5 – financial relief-post divorce denied
