A BUSY HALF-YEAR

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 37, 12 August 1921, Page 7

A BUSY HALF-YEAR

Supremo Court officials have wondered whothgr the year 1921 as a wholo was to be as. busy as the first-six months hare been, ' but now, after running over tho lists .of cases set down for consideration during ths -next few months, they are satisfied mat this is to be a year of records, at any- rate in civil and divorce' work, and that tho spell they had horied for is still quite a long way ahead. Siiico the opening of the year's work the Court has sat in one or other of ite capacities,' iv oriminal, civil, divorce, chambers, banco, Court of Appeal or Full Court sessions, on practically every day, .and those -very occasional days on which no Judge sat on the Bench havo been far more than made up by tho many occasions on which two or three Judges havo been engaged. ■ ... . The present criminal sessions are expected to close about the middle of next week—not a very lon^ session—and will bo again followed by divorce, civil, Court of Appeal^ and Full Court sessions, which, as in tho case of the past quarter, will probably run on without a breals till tha opening of the nexl. quarterly round of sessions al • tho end of October. ' The Divorce Court is lighter this quarter than it was when Hie Court last sat,Nabout forty cases, as compared with eighty, but the civil list is a heavy one. The world's record in disposiuK of undefended divorce casas, by the way, is at the rate of one each 7£ minutes. The Wellington Court has not approached that average rate throughout a day, though during the last three hours of one particular afternoon marriage knots were snapped at the rate of one each eight minutes.