WIFE COERCION ABOLITION.
RECOMMENDED BY JURISTS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. > London, June 2. The committee of jurists appointed to consider the responsibility of a wife for crimes under coercion of her husband, recommends the abolition of the whole doctrine of coercion by a husband as a defence for a wife, leaving her on the same footing as other people, free to stablish any defence or to urge coercion in mitigation of punishment. The committe investigated the South African, Queensland and New Zealand statutes on the subject.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 June 1922, Page 7
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85WIFE COERCION ABOLITION. Taranaki Daily News, 5 June 1922, Page 7
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