SHORTAGE OF JUDGES
(Own Correspondent-
Crowded Divorce Courts at Home S0LICIT0RS' C0MPLA1NTS
-By Air Mail)
LONDON, July 17 Three hundred couples now seeking divoree in London will have to wait until October. The two Courts dealing with a list of 1071 cases for this term are so crowded that this week it was announced that 221 undefended petitions and nearly 100 defended cases will be carried over to the new term, after the Judges' 11 weeks' holiday. More Judges are needed. Only three deal with divorce, and ,with two of these Admiralty cases have precedence. Solicitors are thoroughly dissatisfied with the situation. Daily appeals are made to the King's Bench division for an additional Judge. A fiill year now elapses between petition and decree nisi. Solicitors making inquiries this week were told that "so far as we know>' no 'oxtra Judge is being considered. Discontented, they have resolved to appeal again to the Lord Chancellor. So far this has been refused. A divorce takes just twice as long as it once did._ A divorce should take six months. Actually it takes 12 or 14 months.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 172, 7 August 1937, Page 6
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