Lawver against publicity
PA Auckland Press reporting of lawyers’ disciplinary proceedings would greatly harm the profession, Mr J. E. Towle, a former president of the Auckland District Law Society, has told the society’s annual meeting. He was criticising the decision of the council of the New Zealand Law Society to seek provision ■in the Law Practitioners’ Bill to open disciplinary tribunal proceedings to the public and the news media.
In virtually every matter that came before the committee, an inevitable ingredient was “What sort of a muck-up has been suffered by some client?” he said.
“But it is not only those unfortunate clients’ affairs which will be exposed,” Mr Towle said. “Most of our activities involve two sides, and so there is another set of clients. The practitioners acting for those clients are not in front of the committee, but those practitioners and their clients’ affairs also get exposed.”
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Press, 9 June 1980, Page 12
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