Mrs J Major
You have hit the nail on the head.
If a marriage never happened (because of a number of things, like one of the parties was already married or the person carrying out the ceremony was not legally qualified to do so) it can recognised as annulled by the catholic church and then both parties can marry in the catholic church. This is the only kind of annulment (being null and void from the beginning) which is recognised as an annulment in UK law.
For practical purposes a civil marriage can take place in UK so long as both parties are free to marry, single(never married) single(divorced) single (marriage dissolved) single(Filipino annulment).-
So best wishes to all getting married.
