An earnest plea for an amendment of the divorce law was made by Sir Edward Marshall Hall, K.c., in the cours# of an address at the Aldwych Club recently. He pointed out that in early di those responsible for our religion took care that there was no important action in our lives thas should not be controlled in some form or other. The priests wh? laid down the doctrines regarding' warriage were celibates and of an zhen religion. At the present mo unt, presiding over the Divorces Court and delivering ¢labor: judgements was a judge who happened to be a bachelor.
That there must be some reform: in the divorce Jaws was obvious. Prior to 1857 it was impossible to get divorce without bringing a Bill into Parliament. The whole law of divorce was now regulated, with some slight modifications, by the Act of 1857.
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