‘No-divorce vow should be legally binding option’

COUPLES should be allowed make a legally binding commitment never to divorce, one of the State’s leading family law experts advocated last night.

William Binchy, professor of law at Trinity, believes the lack of choice is inconsistent with a person’s human rights, including freedom of expression, autonomy from the State, privacy and liberty.

“It may be argued liberty is at its most profound and free when a human being knowingly and freely chooses to restrict the scope of his or her range of future choice,” Prof Binchy told the Merriman summer school in Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare.