DIVORCE LAWS
A JUDGE'S POWERS. CONTROVERSY IN ENGLAND. (BI CABLE—PREiS ASSOCIATION— COPISIGHT.) , (ACBTRALIAS A.VD V.Z- CABLI ASSOCIATION.) ! (Received November 2nd, 5.43 p.m.) LONDON. November 1. 1 A lively controversy is in progress I over Mr Justice Hill's revolutionary view of the Divorce Court. He said that some day, perhaps, the law would be altered to enable a Judge to use his discretion to order divorce when judicial separation was asked for. It is interesting to record that hefore the Royal Commission on divorce in 1912, a similar opinion was expressed, namely tluit if separation was an undesirable remedy as leading to immorality, it was unreasonable that a Judge should not be empowered to make a divorce decree. It was not a question concerning the parties alone lint the children, the State, and the interests of morality. Therefore. it should not be ]eft to the caprice of one party.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19148, 3 November 1927, Page 9
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148DIVORCE LAWS Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19148, 3 November 1927, Page 9
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