Foreign divorce cases

SIR – Deputy High Court Judge Richard Todd believes (report, June 14) that allowing rich foreigners to divorce here is good for us because of the taxes paid by their lawyers.

Our “divorce tourism” industry, facilitated by the fact that the relevant parties need only prove a transient connection to this country, has prospered by being more generous to the weaker financial party and, perhaps, by our having a more honest judiciary than exists in some other places. The effect has been to divert judges’ time away from the more pressing needs of those with greater claim to it.

Perhaps more importantly, this state of affairs encourages the perception that all divorce is necessarily adversarial. Professor Chris Barton

Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire