A woman had to be screened off from her estranged husband during their High Court divorce hearing because she 'loathes the sight of him'.
Afsana Lachaux said she did not want to see Bruno Lachaux when answering barristers' questions at a public hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London.
Mr Justice Mostyn said seating arrangements in Court 50 at the Royal Courts of Justice should be reorganised.
Mr Lachaux moved to a press bench at the side of the room and a curtain was drawn between him and Mrs Lachaux.
The judge has been asked to make rulings relating to the status of the pair's marriage. Lawyers want him to decide whether a divorce granted in Dubai should be recognised in England.
Mr Lachaux, a French aerospace engineer who works in the Middle East, has told how he and Mrs Lachaux, who is English and lives in London, spilt after marrying seven years ago. He said Mrs Lachaux was violent towards him and 'threatening'.
She told the judge Mr Lachaux had 'obsessively spied' on her, stalked her and hacked her emails. She said the marriage had been a 'monumental mistake'.
Giving evidence earlier this week, Mr Lachaux said he looked at his wife’s emails when they lived together because he had suspected she was having an affair.
Under Emirati law husbands and wives could examine each other’s emails without permission, he said, as there were ‘no secrets’ between married couples.
Mr Lachaux denied he had stalked her or that he had used other surveillance techniques to spy on her.
When Mr Lachaux began his evidence, his estranged wife moved away from the witness box and moved to sit with one of her lawyers at the back of the courtroom.
