STRUCK OFF ROLLS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1932, Page 5

STRUCK OFF ROLLS

1 THREE NEW ZEALAND SOLICITORS. (Per Press Association — Copyright.) , WELLINGTON, September 23. The Court of Appeal to-day deialt with applications of the Law Society for orders striking Norman Harrison Graveston (solicitor of Christchurch), Matthew Prust Stewart (barrister and solicitor of Auckland'), and Peter Gilfedder (barrister and solicitor of Invercargill) off the rolls of barristers and solicitors of the Dominion.

The applications were not. resisted. The orders asked for were made, costs of, £ls lps' and s_&buisement£ b§* ing allowed to the Law Society in each case.

SUSPENSION OF SOLICITOR. WaT.ILINGTON, September 2&: The Court of Appeal this afternoon dealt with an application by tho New Zealand Law Society for discipline ary action to Rteginal'd Bernard HilJ, barrister and solicitor, formerly practisimg at 'Gisborne. The practitioner was represented by counsel, who said that no allegations of dishonesty had been made against his client. The conrolaints were merely as to his drinking habits over a number of years. Hill was a capable practitioner, but apparently, from a doctor’s evidence he was unable to control his craving for liquor. He submitted that the public would be adequately protected i f some lesser pen silty than striking him off the rolls were inflicted. The Court 'adjourned the Law i&o----ciety’® application for two years. An order was made for the suspension of the practitioner in the meantime, liberty being reserved to him to apply for the removal of the suspension.