RAPID DIVORCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3252, 24 June 1911, Page 11

RAPID DIVORCE.

ONE HUNDRED CASE DECIDED IN A WEEK.

An experience of many years in the Divorce Court has enabled Mr. Justice Gargrave Deane to create a record. Iwo hundred undefended divorce eases appeared in the list on a recent day. The record-making commenced on a Tuesday morning. From the first the progress was good, the only obstacles from the point of view of time bein„ occasionally questions of law which had to be decided. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday witnessed a rapid accumulation of decided cases. A half day on Saturday piled, the. results higher. Hie average-time occupied by the cases was less than a quarter of an hour. . It was another instance of the triumph of the specialist, a justification of the remark that a man may do many things well and one thing excehenth. Sir Henry Bargrave Dean, a counsel, and judge has had to do with the matrimoniai troubles of many thousands of people. He can instantly, tbeieiore, disregard the unnecessary. Mr Justice Bargrave Dean has a kind,'strong, clean-shaved face, and a complexion which hints at a fondness for the open air. He has a manner ot grave seriousness. His utterances are slow and deliberate. “You have proved enough. Decree nisi with costs and the custody of the children,” were words heard many times in the past week. “I have several more witnesses, my lord,” counsel would say in the course of a case. “There is——,” “Who identifies him?” “So-and-So.” “Call him.” And then., a few minutes later: “That’s all you want.”