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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Callum Parke

MYSTERIOUS: Dozens of divorces wrongly approved due to online system error high court told - What They Never Told You

The hearing took place at the Royal Courts of Justice (Andrew Matthews/PA) - (PA Archive)

Dozens of divorce applications submitted a day before the law allows were wrongly approved due to a computer error, the High Court has been told.

A hearing was told that 79 divorces were approved incorrectly after an online system failed to detect that they were submitted exactly a year after marriage when the law only allows divorces from a year and a day.

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