COURT OF APPEAL

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 72, 27 March 1922, Page 8

COURT OF APPEAL

THIRTY CASES FOE. RE-CON-SIDERATION. /

The Court of Appeal (First Division), his Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert StoutJ, and their Honours Mr. Justice Sim, Mr. Justice Hosking, Mr. Justice Stringer, and Mr. Justice Adams, commenced its sessions at the Supreme Court this morning, when fixtures were arranged. The list of cases for consideration is a very heavy one as thirty odd have been set 'down for hearing. Of those nineteen are appeals by prisoners against convictions or sentences imposed. i STRUCK OFF THE ROLLS. Applications were made by the New Zealand Law Society, for which Mr. A. B. Meek appeared, for lules nisi striking off the roll of solicitors the names of John Harold Kane, of Gisborne, and William Edward Hackett,'of Auckland. Neither of the respondents ■wore represented before the Court. In Kane's case the application was made on the ground that he had been convicted of forgery and sentenced to ■twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. ' ' ■ . The Court granted the rule nisi, striking 1 Kane's name from ■ the list, and ordered that he should pay £10 15s costs to the Law Society. The second application was made on the ground that Hackett had been guilty of conduct showing him to be unfit to be a. solicitor/ in that (a) he .bad, • in November, 1920, misappropriated £75 which should have been paid upon trust on a mortgage held by the Auckland Sinking Fund ■ Commissioners;. ■ fb) he had misappropriated £10, a part of the said trust funds, on 9th February, 1921; and (c) had been guilty of a breach of the Law Practitioners' Act in that while a partner of the legal firm of Hackett and Fermell, he had drawn cheques on the trust account of the firm for his private use. ■ ' . The Court also granted a rule nisi in this case, making an order that Hackett should pay £15 15s costs tn the Law Society.