Ruling On Appeals By Architects

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31027, 5 April 1966, Page 3

Ruling On Appeals By Architects

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 4. In three appeals under the Architects Act against refusal by the Architects Registration Tribunal to register the applicants as architects, one was allowed and two dismissed by Mr Justice McGregor in the Supreme Court today.

An appeal by Thomas Samuel Kane, of Auckland, was allowed. His Honour said

he felt the professional knowledge acquired by the appellant had been acquired in a manner satisfactory to the Court, which was entitled to substitute its discretion for that of the registering authority. The appellant had produced proof of his competence in the practice of architecture.

Appeals by Robert Louis Roberts, of Auckland, and John Carey Brain, of Auckland, were dismissed. Referring to Roberts, his Honour said he did not think there had been proof of a standard of competence sufficient for the appellant to be permitted to hold himself out to the general public as a fully qualified architect. His Honour said he could not say he was satisfied as to the experience or the competence of Brain to practice as a registered architect.