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The Operation of the Commonwealth Matrimonial Causes Act in New South Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2025

David Mayer Selby
David Mayer Selby*
Affiliation:
Supreme Court of New South Wales
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Extract

The object of this article is not to discuss in detail any of the questions of law which have arisen under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1959 (Cth), but merely to review in a fairly general way the manner in which the Act has operated since it came into force in February, 1961. My remarks will necessarily be confined, in the main, to experience in New South Wales since that is the State in which I have seen the Act operating but presumably the experience of Judges and practitioners in this State will not be greatly dissimilar from that of their opposite numbers in the other States of the Commonwealth. In one respect, however, the position of legal practitioners in this State is unique for New South Wales alone of the States still clings obstinately to the pre-Judicature Acts method of pleading.

Type
Research Article
Information
Federal Law Review , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 1966 , pp. 1 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © 1966 The Australian National University

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