MENTAL PATIENT’S ESTATE
MAINTENANCE THE FIRST CHARGE rPm Umitbd Press Association. ) AUCKLAND, February 28. In giving judgment to-day in favour of a firm of solicitors who claimed £298 costs and disbursements from the Public Trustee (acting in the case of a mental hospital patient), Mr Justice Fair refused an application for a direction to the Public Trustee to pay the amount. He said that the estate of a mental patient must first provide for his maintenance ; but in this case the estate was obtained largely as a result of the solicitor’s efforts. If the Minister in charge of mental hospitals agreed, the Public Trustee might quite pronerly pay the solicitors a si«ii up to £2OO.
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Evening Star, Issue 21966, 28 February 1935, Page 14
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115MENTAL PATIENT’S ESTATE Evening Star, Issue 21966, 28 February 1935, Page 14
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