APPEAL COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 22 June 1932, Page 6

APPEAL COURT

TWO SOLICITORS STRUCK OFF. (By TelegrapK-Per tress Association

ll WELLINGTON, June 22. On 0 the application of the New Zealand Law (.Society, the Court of Ap- j peal made! an order, striking Claude Haughton kVltys!, barrister aind solicitor,''; f6Vmerly practising at Blenheim, off the rolls of barristers and solicitors* df the Dominion. Counsel for Mills said he had submitted to fthe order being made. A numbeC of) the 'irregularities alleged could be 1 (satisfactorily explained but the larger,; ones, and in face of the deficit in (he trust account, could not. j The fiolicitor himself had gained no personal benefit from tine shortage in his account. He had over invested for clients and losses were made and these losses had been made up from the money of other clients. Ihe solicitor* had? securities representing a Considerable portion of the deficit and wiis endeavouring to pay 20s in the £. Trills was held in very high esteem iii Marlborough and for months and months had been extremely i'll, winch "undoubtedly led to the confusion in the running of his practice. Costs 15 guineas and disbursements were allowed tlie : Law .Society. '.An order was also made striking Jas... Joseph Fitzgerald, of Christ- ’ church, off the Tolls of solicitors of the Dominion. The, practitioner was not represented. > | The Court of’(Appeal granted leave Jto appeal informa- pauperis in a Christ■qlm.rcilh case of' Algie V. Brown and Son'Ltd., and'in flte Auckland ease-of Mba ~ JPirimoa n a S.yL'l A robi bald R. G. B.rimton. A fixture.’was made for the hearing-..0f the foriiier case for Thursday ,30th. :• i net.