GUARANTEE FUND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 21 September 1938, Page 9

GUARANTEE FUND.

PROTECTING CLIENTS.

LAWYER'S PROPOSAL

STUDYING THE K.Z. PLAN.

(Prom Onr Own > VANCOUVER, August 18. The 23rd meeting of the Canadian Bar Association, in its concluding eeesion here, took eteps to investigate the

possibility of launching "a carefully devised publicity campaign, on behalf of the profession aa a whole." No action can be taken this year on the resolution, which came before the meeting immediately after a discussion of the solicitors' guarantee fund of New Zealand, led by R. M. Whillee Chitty, K.C., of Toronto. It will be in the hande of a committee during the coming year, and may come before the next annual meeting. Adoption of the New Zealand guar-

antee fund plan by the Canadian Bar Association wae advocated by Mr. Chitty, and later referred to a committee for study. Under the plan, every solicitor would contribute a stipulated annual fee to the fund whk-h. controlled

iy the association's governing body, vould be used to protect any person vho niipht suffer from some mistake by i solicitor in the handling of money. Sueb action, said Mr. Chitty, would iot only serve as protection to the pubic, but would pliable the profession tsolf rather than insurance or bonding ■ompaniee to control any actions that nijiht arise. R. h. Mnitland, K.C., Vancouver, speaking for a committee of the British Viluinbia l!ar Society, which had studied the plan <inrp it was first advocated before the «ss.*-iation by Mr. Chitty last year, recommended sprioue study of the!>!nn by ;i (••'niniittcp. He said it had been fonnd in »*J Zealand that "an amazing *n» o ™* ~ the old solicitors J- ns '""f* came back when it was learned tier* warn a fund to back them up.