“IT IS TERRIBLE”
divorce in Britain Judge Condemns Law "To my mind the divorce laws of this country are wicked and cruel." This was one of uiuny striking tla'.-e--ments in a judgement by Mr. Justice Swift in a discretionary divorce suit alt 'the recent Biirmilngharai Asslfies. "“Over and over again to-day, in one case after another. I have hi.Ui the unhappy children of divided Parente 1 coming here to prove either that one or other was guilty of adultery," he said. "To my mind it is most terrible that in the case of these unhappy people, in order that one side or the either may regularise their position and live decentlv in the eyes of their neighbours, it is necessary that a daughter should have to be ■called to prove her mether’s adulw tery.”
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 422, 1 May 1937, Page 5
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134“IT IS TERRIBLE” Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 422, 1 May 1937, Page 5
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