order prohibiting an intellectual disabled man going ahead with a long-planned civil marriage to an intellectually disabled woman.
This marriage was planned for a long time and the charity has been aware of reports of his lack of capacity for months past and also expressed concerns to the civil registrar last December who later indicated he did not consider the objections were sustainable in law give the statutory regime he has to administer.
Neither of the options before the court were attractive but he had concluded the better option was to stop the marriage as it was not in the man’s best interests to permit him enter a contract of marriage he does not understand and does not have capacity to understand, he held. The judge returned the matter to next week and made additional orders for a independent medical doctor to assess the man and report to the court on his capacity in the context of wardship proceedings.