19 November 2020
White v White was a landmark in divorce law, ushering in a more equal playing field for couples where one spouse works and the other stays home
It was ‘a celebrated decision at the time, considered a sign that the law was catching up with society’, writes Abby Buckland, partner, Kingsley Napley, in NLJ this week.
Lord Nicholls summarised: ‘There should be no bias in favour of the money-earner and against the home-maker and the child-carer.’
Lord Nicholls summarised: ‘There should be no bias in favour of the money-earner and against the home-maker and the child-carer.’
Twenty years on from this seminal judgment, Buckland assesses how much progress has been made in gender equality.
