DIVORCE COMMISSION.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE'S EVIDENCE Press Aaeodation-By Telegraph-Copvright LONDON, June' 1. The Lord Chief Justice, Sir Richard Alverstone, in giving evidence before the Divorce Commission, objected to giving jurisdiction to County Courts, or any inferior Court. The difficulty experienced by the poor in obtaining divorce might be met by the State paying the expenses as was done in criminal cases. He considered that husband and wife should have equal grounds of divorce. Permanent lunacy ought to be sufficient justification. Lord Alverstone, said that a wife should have equal remedy, but the power and duty to forgive ought to be more easy to a wife than to a husband.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14215, 3 June 1910, Page 5
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109DIVORCE COMMISSION. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14215, 3 June 1910, Page 5
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