A UK woman who was refused a divorce by judges has taken her case to the Supreme Court.

Tini Owens had previously failed to persuade judges in both the High Court and Court of Appeal to allow her to divorce her husband of 39 years - Hugh Owens – after she claimed the marriage had broken down following an affair she had several years earlier.

In March this year, Court of Appeal judges accepted that although in fact, if not in law, her marriage was irretrievably broken, she could not get divorced as the law currently stands and that a “no fault” divorce needed to be introduced by Parliament to address situat...