Key legal question
Whether the divorce should be granted despite the earlier cantonal dismissal, given the wife's subsequent consent and the marital breakdown.
Extracted holding
The court held that the spouses' joint divorce request could be considered on appeal and that the record showed a profound breakdown making continued cohabitation incompatible with marriage.
Extracted reasoning
The Federal Court was bound by the facts found below, but those facts already established a deep and irreversible breakdown. The wife's consent was not collusive; it reflected the conviction that continued cohabitation was impossible.