IMPORTANT APPEAL CASE.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12500, 29 March 1909, Page 3

IMPORTANT APPEAL CASE.

[United Pbess Association.] ■„■'■ / Wanganui, March 28. The English Court of Appeal decided a few. weeks ago that a woman who has obtained a. -Police Court separation from her husband on the ground of desertion, unless the desertion has lasted more than two years before the order is 'obtained, is for'eyer'deba-Tedffom obtaining a divorce,' no matter what the subsequent "conduct of her husband may be._. The decision is the mostim-. pdifant in divorce law.eySr delivered. ■Li connection With this report^ the ''Chronicle's" representative " interviewed Mr George Hutchison- the well-known barrister; as. to whether., the decision would apply in New Zealand, and Mr Hutchison expressed the opinion': that- as'.'the New Zealand law was based on the English law, the. i ruling would hold good out here.