DIVORCE TO STAND
INTERVENTION BY CROWN A RESERVED DECISION (Per Proas Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The rejection of the intervention ot the Solicitor-General in the undefended divorce suit of Charles Hector Hopkins against Theresa. Marie Hopkins was announced in the reserved judgment of Mr Justce Reed this morning. The Solicitor-General had intervened on the ground that material facts had been placed before the court, namely, that the petitioner had committed misconduct since the separation upon which the decree nisi, made in May, 1933, was based. The judge held that the petitioner had withheld the fact in ignorance, and also ruled that misconduct alone was insufficient to affect the petitioner’s case. Therefore, the decree would not be rescinded. In further observations, the judge declared that the law relating to intervention had stood still in the Dominion, and possible modifications of the latest English statutory provisions might be usefully adopted. No costs were allowed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18253, 23 November 1933, Page 11
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152DIVORCE TO STAND Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18253, 23 November 1933, Page 11
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