The applicant sought an annulment of her marriage to the respondent on grounds including non-cohabitation, non-consummation, and marriage under pressure due to religious and cultural beliefs.
The court granted the annulment, finding that the applicant's refusal to consummate the marriage was a predictable and rational consequence of her sincerely held religious belief that consummation should not occur until all stages of an Islamic marriage ceremony were completed, constituting an "invincible aversion" as per common law principles applied contextually to cultural norms.
