§ Sir Peter Rawlinsonasked the Minister without Portfolio whether the Law Commissioners propose to review the present divorce law, including the appropriateness 265W of applying the principle of the matrimonial offence and the innocence or guilt of spouses, and the desirability of any of the proceedings concerning marriage between the parties to that marriage being held in public.
§ Sir Eric FletcherNo. The Law Commission's programme makes it clear that what the Commission proposes is a preliminary examination of matrimonial law, family inheritance and property law and jurisdiction with a view to seeing how further consideration of the questions involved can best be undertaken.