CO129-610-5 Marriages solemnized in Stanley Camp during the Japanese occupation and subsequent legislation for divorce 14-2-1947 - 27-6-1947 — Page 19

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Mr. Mi Petrie

The

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reason for doubting the validity of the divorces made in Internment Camp is that it is doubtful whether the Supreme Court during the occupation was properly constituted and whether the Chief Justice had therefore any jurisdiction. There are, however, only 4 cases of decrees nisi been made in the Camp - two have been the subject of fresh proceedings, one case is being dealt with by Messrs. Madding Co., and we have at present been asked not to take any further action in the remaining case, that of Dalziel. As you will see from (5) it was essential that validating legislation should be passed.

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Mr. Mi Petrie The 18 19 reason for doubting the validity of the divorces made in Internment Camp is that it is doubtful whether the Supreme Court during the occupation was properly constituted and whether the Chief Justice had therefore any jurisdiction. There are, however, only 4 cases of decrees nisi been made in the Camp - two have been the subject of fresh proceedings, one case is being dealt with by Messrs. Madding Co., and we have at present been asked not to take any further action in the remaining case, that of Dalziel. As you will see from (5) it was essential that validating legislation should be passed. Mr. Roberts-Wray's comments Page 18 Page 19 has been corrected to ... removed as it is not needed, minor reordering and spacing correction done. The original text had some OCR errors like "havrip" corrected to "however", "decreas" to "decrees", "twoō" to "two", and some reordering for better readability. The output is in HTML format as per the instructions.

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Mr. Mi Petrie

The

18 19

reason for doubting the

decrees of

validity of the divorces

Internment Camp

made

Camp is that it is

Starley

doubtful whether the Supreme Count" during the occupation

was properly constituted

whether

and

The Chief Justice had therefore

any jurisdiction

There are,

havever, only

havrip

4 cases of decreas nisi

been made in the Camp - twoō

have been the subject of fresh

proceedings,

are

case is being

dealt with by Messrs. madding

Co. 9

ノ

we have at present been

asked not

to take any further acha

is that of

remaining case

a the

Dalziel

fee

as you

Dalgiel, as

will

from (5) it was essential that

validating legislation should be passed.

Mr. Roberts - Wray's comments

Roberts-Wray's

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