COERCION OF WIVES
AN INTERESTING SUBJECT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, March 21. While Lady Astor, who is the first woman to introduce a measure in the British Parliament, was introducing an amending bill—re coercion of wives—in the House of Commons, Lord Ullswater was drawing attention to the subject of the coercion of wives in the House of Lords. He said:—“lf we want to maintain respect for the law it is necessary that the law should be strictly in accord with the present customs, thought, and social relations. We must therefore abandon the presumption that a husband would coerce his wife.” Lord .Buckmaster took the opposite view. “Husbands.” he said, “continued to coerce their. wives.” Lord Birkenhead agreed that this subject required reconsideration, and he proposed to set up an expert committee to report. It was in consequence of a campaign following the Peel betting case that Lady Astor introduced her bill in the House of Commons for amending the law in relation to the presumption of coercion in the case of offences committed by married women.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 March 1922, Page 5
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