DIVORCE IN BRITAIN
STEADILY, INCREASING. Divorces in Great Britain have injcreased considerably since the passing of the law forbidding the publication of details of evidence. The average annual number of cases in the years before the prohibition of publication of reports of evidence was 2773; the annual average since has been 3545. The example of Great Britain in prohibiting the publication of evidence has been followed in Victoria. When the measure was before Parliament here (says the Melbourne Argus) there was general agreement with its provisions because, unfortunately, a few newspapers made a specialty of the publication of unsavoury proceedings. It was extremely desirable to suppress that practice as far as possible, but legislators sometimes fail to realise that a restrictive law often has conseqeunces less desirable than thbse at which they aim. Divorce on sufficient grounds is deefnsible whether there be publicity or not, but the suppression of particulars makes easier ofa ccomplishment the desires of those who appeal to the law for flimsy reasons. Collusion is one expedient which such suppression assists, and there are probably others which longer experience of the law will reveal.
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3271, 12 March 1931, Page 7
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187DIVORCE IN BRITAIN Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3271, 12 March 1931, Page 7
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