THREE MONTHS' SUSPENSION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 159, 7 July 1926, Page 12

THREE MONTHS' SUSPENSION.

rOB WELLINGTON SOLICITOR. TTIUST ACCOUNT NOT AUDITED. (Bj Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The of Appeal was engaged today hearing an application by the Wellington Law Society to deal with William Henry Tustin, of Wellington, solicitor, for failure to have audited his trust account. Counsel for defendant stated that the intention of the Law Society was that the offence should be dealt with as a technical breach of a duty imposed by the Law Practitioners Act to 'audit a trust account. Irregularities had been going on since the big fire at Raetihi, which had caused a slump in business, end had forced defendant to come to Wellington and start in practice here. The Chief Justice, Hon. C. P. Skerrett, ■was of opinion that the Court should only deal with the specific charge of failure to have audited his trust account. He stated the judgment of the Court would be that Tustin should be suspended for three months on this charge alone, and, if the Law Society thought fit on investigation, the matter could again be brought before the Court. Costs, £15 15/, and disbursements, were allowed to the society.