Judge grants 'world's first' gay divorce

A Canadian court has approved what a lawyer claimed was the world’s first same-sex divorce after a judge ruled that the definition of spouses in the Divorce Act is unconstitutional.

The lesbian couple – identified in court documents only as JH and MM. – had been together for almost 10 years when they married in June 2003, shortly after the Ontario Court of Appeal legalised same-sex marriages. They separated just five days later.