LAW SOCIETY SUED
SOLICITOR’** DEFALCATIONS, RESTITUTION FOR A CLIENT, NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 21. Air Justice Blair reserved his decision on Saturday on tan interesting case under the Solicitors’ Fidelity Guarantee Fund, said to he the first of its kind in the Dominion, in which Nelson Been Bishop proceeded against the New Zealand Law Society for £1052, The action arose out of the recent conviction at Inglewood of a solicitor, Harold Thomson, and his managing clerk, Robert Harlow, for misappropriation of trust funds, Nelson asks for reimbursement of money Unit Thomson, as his solicitor, should have paid him. The defence ot the New Zealand Law Society is that the money was stolen before November, 1929, before the Practitioners’ Act came into force. During the hearing, counsel for the Law Society explained that the society had already paid out £5.200 to clients in respect of the detalcutiou s ol Thomson and Darlow and that another i£2oo had yet to he paid.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1932, Page 5
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159LAW SOCIETY SUED Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1932, Page 5
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