DIVORCE DECREE
AS SEPARATION ALTERNATIVE. JUDGES’ DISCRETION. PERMISSIVE ARGUMENT. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, November 2. A lively controversy is in progress over Mr Justice Hill’s revolutionary view of the Divorce Court. He said that some day, perhaps, the law would be altered to enable a jndge to use his discretion to order a divorce when a judicial separation was asked for. It is interesting to recall that, before the Royal Commission on Divorce in 1912, a similar opinion was expressed, namely, that if separation were an undesirable remedy, as leading to immorality, it was unreasonable that a judge should not be empowered to make a divorce decree. It was not a question concerning the parties aloae, but the children, the State and the interests of’morality; therefore it should not be left to the caprice cf one party. —A. and N.Z,
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Northern Advocate, 3 November 1927, Page 5
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