WIVES AND THEIR HUSBANDS.
THE QUESTION OF COERCION. DISCUSSION IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Received March 22. 10.30 p.m. LONDON, March 21. In consequence o£ a campaign following the Peel case, Lady Astor introduced a Bill in the House of Commons amending the law in relation to the presumption of coercion in the case of offences committed by married women. While Lady Astor, who ds the first woman to introduce a measure in the British Parliament, was introducing an amending Bill in the Commons, Lord Ullswater, in the House of Lords was drawing attention to the subject of the coercion of wives. He said: If we want to maintain respect for the law, it is necessary that the law be strictly in accord with present customs, thought and social relations. We must, therefore, abandon the presumption that a husband would coerce his wife. Lord Buckmaster took the opposite view. Husbands, he said, continued to coerce their wives.
Lord Birkenhead (Lord Chancellor) agreed that the subject required reconsideration, and he proposed to set up an expert committee to report.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18438, 23 March 1922, Page 5
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