MAINTENANCE COURT
CRITICISM BY JUDGE (By Telegraph.—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday “It is a mischievous Court and a mischievous administration,” said Mr Justice Northcroft when referring to the maintenance or destitute persons’ Court during the hearing of a case under the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act in the Supreme Court today. Mr Justice Northcroft said the Supreme Court had had many deplorable cases arising from orders made in the maintenance. court. “It does more harm than good in many cases,” he said. “I am not criticising the learned magistrate,” he continued, when referring to his own statement that he would not have supported a maintenance order made in the lower Court. “It is probable that all the facts were not brought before him.” Counsel for the defence, Mr R. A. Young, said the case was heard in a short time in the lower Court, and not all the evidence had been brought there that had been brought in the Supreme Court.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20911, 16 September 1939, Page 9
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160MAINTENANCE COURT Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20911, 16 September 1939, Page 9
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