PRESS GAG POLICY.
Big Increase In Divorce Court Work. Np' FBAR OF PUBLICITY NOW. LONDON, October 3. The "Daily Express" says more than 500 applications for divorce will be heard in the Michaelmas term, and when the year closes 2400 divorce cases will have been decided in London alone, apart from more than 1000 heard by Assize judges.
This is an astonishing increase since the periods 1911-15, when the average was 656 cases a year, and 1916-20, when the average was 1510.
Lawyers attribute the present year's increase to the prohibition of newspaper reports. The Divorce Courts no longer hold out the terrors formerly imposed and persons are not deterred from applying for divorce by the fear of publicity.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 234, 4 October 1927, Page 7
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