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A case study of one marital breakdown that led to three court cases and three years of conflict in Parliament over a failed divorce Act and a successful Separation Act in the 1870s.
List of contents
Abbreviations and Short Forms
Principal Members of the Byrne and Campbell Families
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - The Town of Whitby, the Campbell and Byrne Families,
and the Campbell Marriage to August 1873
Chapter 3 - Robert Campbell’s Separation from Eliza, August 1873
Chapter 4 - Eliza Campbell’s Ejection from the Family Home, September 1873
Chapter 5 - The Campbells Go to Court 1:
Robert Campbell v. George Gordon for Criminal Conversation, 1873
Chapter 6 - The Campbells Go to Court II:
Eliza Campbell (Robert Campbell et ux) v. James Campbell for Defamation, 1874
Chapter 7 - The Campbells Go to Court III:
Eliza Campbell v. Robert
Campbell for Alimony, 1874 -1875
Chapter 8 - Robert Campbell’s Petition for Divorce, 1876
Chapter 9 - The Senate Divorce Committee 1: The Case for Robert Campbell
Chapter 10 - The Senate Divorce Committee 2: The Case for Eliza Campbell
Chapter 11 - The Senate Divorce Committee 3: Counsels’ Speeches and the Committee’s Report
Chapter 12 - Eliza Campbell’s Separation Bill in Parliament, 1877
Chapter 13 - An Interlude, 1878
Chapter 14 - Eliza Campbell’s Separation Bill in Parliament, Again - 1879
Chapter 15 - The Principals after 1880 - Winners and Losers
Chapter 16 - Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix 1: Eliza Campbell’s Petition to the Senate, 29 March 1876
Appendix 2: Eliza Campbell’s Separation Bill, 1877
Appendix 3: The Separation Act, 1879
About the author
By Jim Phillips
Summary
A case study of one marital breakdown that led to three court cases and three years of conflict in Parliament over a failed divorce Act and a successful Separation Act in the 1870s.
