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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The current top comment from the discussion on hackernew seems to explain how this is a typical example of a news service creating "much noise and fury signifying nothing":</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40043949" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40043949</a></span><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(246, 246, 239);">You can see the UI for UK's divorce lawyers in this training document[1] pdf. It's not actually that bad, but the payment flow only shows case numbers, not names.</span></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">----</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">However, the headline for this article is a bit misleading. It sounds like the lawyers just divorced a random married couple, and the judge refused to undo it.</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">But if you go through the article, and put together the clues like a game of Dog Crimes, you get the following sequence of events:</p><div>1) The wife hired a speciality divorce law firm. </div><div>2) The law firm had already completed all divorce paperwork and uploaded documents into court web system for the wife divorcing the husband.</div><div>3) The law firm accidentally selected this "case" to submit and pay for, rather than another intended case. </div><div>4) Per UK law the husband would have been officially notified of the completion of the divorce. </div><div>5) The wife was not happy about this surprise. </div><div>6) The wife's law firm went to court to undo the divorce. </div><div>7) The husband hired his own lawyers to keep the divorce. </div><div>8) Given that all the paperwork was correct filed, and one member of the couple wanted to keep the divorce the judge let it stand.</div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">[1] <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/978622/Submitting_a_case_with_share_a_case_function_April_2021.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/978622/Submitting_a_case_with_share_a_case_function_April_2021.pdf</a></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">William</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div><div id="ydp9f3aed29yahoo_quoted_3762701566" class="ydp9f3aed29yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div id="ydp9f3aed29yiv4398750667">
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