The Supreme Court have decided to allow a Decree of Divorce stand despite the fact that a man’s concealment of assets in the High Court was described as “outrageous” and “conscientiously and deliberately dishonest”. The Supreme Court has ruled that the man must pay his first wife a further sum of at least €2.26million. Mr. Justice McKechnie remarked that he had “never known of, or come across, a case where a party has so blatantly acted and were nothing short of what contempt has been shown to the court”. He also stated that “these matters should not simply be let rest here”.
The court did not overturn the Decree due to particular circumstances including the fact that the man’s second wife had married him in good faith.
