COSTS NOT ALLOWED.
The magistrate who has just commenced to preside over the sittings of the Hastings Court, Mr. A. M. Movvlcm. gave the members of the legal fraternity a surprise when he refused to allow solicitor's costs on a judgment order. Mr. Mowlem said that there was no uniformity in regard to fees in judgment summons cases, but he had ascertained the "attitude of such magistrates as Messrs. Page, Cutten, Hunt. VViddowson, Bartholomew. Mosley and others. It was their practice not to allow counsel's costs against judgment debtors. unless in special circumstances, where. for instance, it was known that a debtor had the money and would not pay until a warrant was issue*!. In these cases costs were all right, but where an order for monthly payments was held over the head of a debtor, then he would not allow costs. He added that he did not wish to prevent a solicitor from earning every shilling he could, but he intended to carrr on as he had started.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1927, Page 9
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