A few weeks
ago, the Irish caught up with most of the rest of us when their Supreme Court
recognised the first, but not second, marriage of a Lebanese man with two wives
whom he had married under Sharia law, which is accepted as legitimate marriage
law for Muslims by the Lebanese State.
The recognition of marriages concluded in outside jurisdictions is commonplace worldwide. As a rule of thumb, a jurisdiction will recognise the marriage of a couple where the State authorities of the jurisdiction in which they were married recognises them as being legally married, unless the marriage would have been disallowed in the jurisdiction being applied to.
