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BIZARRE: Divorce applications wrongly approved after computer error high court hears - What They Never Told You

Split wedding cake with bride and groom on top falling to either side
The court heard that several people had expressed ‘significant distress’ in the possibility they may not be legally divorced from their former partners. Photograph: Rubberball/Mike Kemp/Getty

Dozens of divorce applications were wrongly approved due to a computer error, the high court has heard.

A hearing in London on Wednesday was told that 79 divorces were incorrectly approved after the applications were submitted a day before the law allows. An online system failed to detect that the submissions came a year after marriage, when the law only permits divorces from a year and a day.

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