“WICKED AND CRUEL”
BRITISH DIVORCE LAWS. [BY ’ i (Received March 17, : ’2.40 p.m.)V^ a ' LONDON, March 16. Several High Court Judges have lately protested vigorously against aspects of the divorce laws/- The latest .outburst came from Mr,, Justice Swift, at the Birmingham Assizes.' In a case where a husband ; and wife had been separated for fourteen years, both had made other alliances, and sought a discretionary divorce,,. -; , “They want to. be, separated in law, and why not,” he said, “when in truth, they had been separated., so long; but, so . that this may be done, they must bring their daughter, tb say, that the v mother is: living with a man not her father, and he is living with a woman not her mother. The divorce laws of this country, to my mind, are wicked and cruel. I wish' some of those learned ecclesiastics who . show so much concern for the well-being of society, would come and sit here. It would not be long before the divorce laws were 'altered.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 March 1937, Page 7
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