In a judgment delivered on Thursday 23 January, the European Court of Human Rights condemned France for a divorce “in which blame was attributed solely to the applicant, on the grounds that she had ceased to have sexual relations with her husband” and found there had been a violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which concerns the right to respect for private and family life.
“In the Court’s view, consent to marriage could not imply consent to future...