STRUCK OFF THE ROLLS.
In the Queen’s Bench Division a day or two since, before Lord Coleridge, ■judgment was given in vc Pook, a solicitor. This was a rule, promoted by the Incorporated Law Societj', to strike Mr Pook, a solicitor, of Greenwich, off the "rolls of the Court for the misappro priation of two sums of money entrusted to him by two for specific purposes. Lord Coleridge said the Court had come to the conclusion that there was nothing in the case* that would enable them to mitigate the extreme penalty which he was about to pronounce. From 1879, when the solicitor was paid the mone3 r , it was retained by him until a day or two ago, wh°n he paid it over under the pressure of these proceedings, in the hope that it would be taken into account in passing sentence. Such a payment, however, could not bo taken into account in mitigation of, sentence. The Court could come to no other conclusion than to order that Mr Pook must be struck off the rolls of the Court as a solicitor.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2606, 28 July 1881, Page 3
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183STRUCK OFF THE ROLLS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2606, 28 July 1881, Page 3
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