DIVORCE LAW.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13922, 29 March 1909, Page 5

DIVORCE LAW.

A NEW DECISION. Per Press Association. WANGANT7I, 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 for more than two years before the order is obtained, is for over debarred from obtaining a divorce, no matter what the subsequent conduct of her husband may be. The decision is the most important in divqree law ever delivered. Jn tonne^tion Vfifti this report, a Chronicle representative interviewed Mr. GeoVge Hutchison, *& 'well-known barrister, as to whether the decision would apply in New Zealand. Mr. Hutchison expressed th© opinion that as New Zealand law was based on English law, the ruling would hold good out here.