David Burrows breaks the seal on Kim v Morris
Rules 2010 (FPR 2010) forms mostly do that job.
Divorce procedure (FPR 2010, Pt 7) is based on extinct county court rules: interrogatories and discovery only went in April 2011. If a cause is defended, precision pleading is still essential. Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973), s 1(3) requires the court to “inquire” into the facts. If the facts (set out in s 1(2)) are proved, the marriage will be found to have irretrievably broken down (s 1(1)) and a decree will follow (s 1(5)). Though MCA 1973 does not say so, the decree is in the first instance a decree nisi which can be made absolute (unless