LAW REPORTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2273, 6 October 1914, Page 9

LAW REPORTS

COURT OF APPEAL

J FIXTURES MADE

SOLICITORS V. THE LAW SOCIETY

The sittings of the Court of Appeal (first division) commenced hi Wellington yesterday, when the bench wae occupied by the Chief Justice (.Sir Robert Stout), Mr. Justice Denniston, Mr. Justice Edwards. Mr. Justice Sim, and Mr. Justice Hosking. The case of the Hermann and Weger Manufacturing Company v. Mangaone Oilfields was sot down for hearing on , Thursday next. ' ' Another fixture made was that of Battershy and others v. AVheatley and others, an Auckland case removed, to be heard on October 15. No dates were fixed for the following: —M'Gregor v. M'Gregor; In re King ex parte Onehunga Sawmillmg ComSany; Stanley Stamp Company v. Broie; and the Supreme Court (full-bench) case of Gillies v. Gane.

STRUCK OFF THE ROLL.

JOHN CRISP, PALMERSTON SOUTH John Crisp, barrister and solicitor, of Palmerswn, Otago, was struck off the roll and ordered to pay coste amounting to £15 15s. .■ ■ . Mr. H. F. Von Haast, who appeared for the New Zealand Law Society, stated that when"served' with the rule, nisi Crisp wrote a memorandum stating that he did not desire to 'be represented. He had been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for forgery of conveyance, forgery of deed ot mortgage, forgery of Registrar's signature, two charges of misappropriation, of £100, and failing to keep proper books of account. .

J. S. NEAVE, INVERCARGILL. Mr. H. P. Von Haast also, appeared for the New Zealand Law Society in the matter of the Law' Practitioners' Act and the matter of James Sampson Neave, barrister and solicitor, of Invercargill, who was struck off the roll and ordered to pay .15 guineas costs for misappropriating the sum of £113 19s. sd. entrusted to him' by the executors of tho will of Henry Wilkinson. According to Mr. Von Haaet, the sum of £18 had since been accounted for, and when applied to for an explanation the defaulting solicitor had stated that he thought all matters had been completed and that lie had had a severe illness which affected his memory. • No affidavit had been filed.

JUDGMENT RESERVED. A motion to strike the name of Robert Taylor Wood off tho roll of barristers and solicitors was also before the Court. Mr. H. F.\ Von Haast appeared for the Now Zealand Law Society, and Mr. A. W. Blair appeared for Wood and asked the Court not to take tho extreme case of striking his. client off the roll, but merely suspend 'him for a fixed period.The motion was put forward on the ground that Wood, who was a solicitor's clerk, had stolen a watch during-a drinking bout. He had been convicted of the theft, and was now'confined in the home for inebriates on Roto Roa Island. It appeared that Wood bore an' excellent character. when not drinking,., and his solicitor submitted that lus bffoDce had nothing to do with tho practice of his profession. After hearing ' legal argument, the Court reserved decieion.' . : I