DIVORCE SUITS
4000 CASES IN THE COURTS. LONDON, October 30. Entries ip the divorce lists tor the last legal term of the year, October, exceeded 500, and indications are that the total fpr 1932, counting the Assize cases, will be over 4000. Poor persons’ suits figure- heavily in the lists—in fact over 90 per yeiit of the cases arc brought by poor people under the- ' special faculties now granted them.' Since the law equalised the grounds for divorce between the sexes, the average annual totals have been between 4000 and 5000. cases. Yet in the years before the war the average- was under 700. There- was then no local divorce courts' and no special facilities for the poor.
It is evident that wives are continuing to outnumber husbands as petitioners; husbands’ suits are about one-third of the whole. Women barristers continue t,o take a good share in divorce work, both in Court and- in Chambers. Soon after, the Courts meet again it will be the tenth anniversary of “Portia’s” work at the Bar. 1
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1932, Page 6
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