JUDGMENTBY: WINSLOW J

In this case, the petitioner, Mr. Wee Hock Guan, a cashier at the Ocean Park Hotel, asks for dissolution of his marriage to his wife, Madam Chia Chit Neo, on the ground of her adultery with the co-respondent, Mr. Chiam Kim Joo, a schoolmaster.

It is well established that an allegation of this nature must be proved to the satisfaction of the Court beyond reasonable doubt and that the onus of so satisfying the Court in this case rests upon the petitioner. "The evidence must go beyond establishing suspicion and opportunity to commit adultery and must be such as to satisfy the Court that from the nature of things adultery must have been committed; where the evidence is entirely circumstantial the Court will not draw the inference of guilt unless the facts relied on are not reasonably capable of any other explanation." (See Tolstoy on the Law and Practice of Divorce, 4th Ed. at page 29). As Lord Merrivale P. said in Farnham v Farnham (1925) 133 LT 320 320 "The inference of adultery arises when there is proof of the disposition of parties to commit adultery, together with the opportunity to commit it".

The facts are as follows:--

(a) The parties were marr

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