DIVORCES IN BRITAIN
ASTONISHING INCREASE EFFECT OF PROHIBITION OF PRESS REPORTS' ■ (Rec. October 3, 8.15 p.m.) 1 . London, October 3. The “Daily Express” states that more than five hundred divorces will be heard during the Michaelmas term, and when the year closes 2400 divorce eases will have been decided in London alone, apart from more than a thousand heard bv assize judges. This is an astonishing increase since 1911 to 1915, when the average was 656 a year, and from 1916 to 1920, when the average was 1510. Lawyers attribute the present year’s increase to the prohibition of newspaper reports. Divorce courts no longer hold out-.the terrors formerly imposed. Persons are not deterred by the fear of publicity.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 8, 4 October 1927, Page 9
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118DIVORCES IN BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 8, 4 October 1927, Page 9
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