Abstract

Abstract The decision to grant a divorce was regarded as so important that only the High Court had the power to do so. But while this not only made the process very expensive, increasing demand (especially in war-time) led to the High Court being over-loaded. At the end of World War II, the Denning Committee insisted that it would be wrong to allow ‘inferior courts’ (such as the county court) to have the power to deal with divorce, but recommended that country court judges should be appointed as ‘Commissioners’s itting in divorce cases as if they were in the High Court. At the same time, there was compelling evidence that orders made by Magistrates’ Courts led to great hardship, and measures were taken to introduce what was described as conciliation into those proceedings.

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