Question of marriage as Supreme Court sits in Scotland for first time

JAMES MULLHOLLAND

a couple had entered into a sham marriage lay with the Government.

Mr Bovey told the Supreme Court that in the case of the couple the Home Office had not gathered enough evidence to prove the couple were entering into a sham marriage.

He added: “The respondent did not show there was any attempt to mislead anybody in any material fashion. I simply invite the court to allow the appeal.”

The judgment issued by the Court of Session last year tells of how the pair had met at a disco in 2012. They had spent Hogmanay 2013 in the streets of Edinburgh, having earlier attended Ms Sadovska’s sister’s wedding earlier in the same month.

On March 25, 2014, the couple published a notice of their intention to marry on April 17, 2014 at Leith Registry Office, Edinburgh.

Scotland’s most senior judge Lord Carloway wrote in the opinion that UK Border Agency officials came to the conclusion the pair were entering into a sham marriage. He wrote: “The first appellant was unable to say where the second appellant was from. She could not name his parents or any of his brothers and sisters.”

Lord Carloway upheld the decision made by the judges.

The hearing, which is being heard before Lord Neuberger, Lady Hale, Lord Clarke, Lord Kerr and Lord Reed, continues.