A 'private' divorce issued by a religious court in a third country on the basis of a unilateral application by one spouse does not come under the 'Rome III' regulation, the Court of Justice of the EU confirmed in a judgment returned on Wednesday 20 December (C-372/16), confirming the conclusions of the Advocate General (see EUROPE 11864).
Mr Raja Mamisch and Ms Soha Sahyouni, both of whom are German-Syrian nationals, married in Syria and currently live in Germany. In 2013, by request of...