STRUCK OFF ROLLS

Grey River Argus, 24 September 1932, Page 5

STRUCK OFF ROLLS

Three Solicitors (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, September 23. The Court of Appeal to-day dealt with applications of the Law Society for orders striking Norman Harrison Gravcston (solicitor of .Christchurch', Matthew Piust Stewart (barrister and solicitor of Auckland), and Peter Gilfedder (barrister and solicitor of In vercargili) off th Q rolls of barristers and solictors of the Dominion. The applications were not resisted. The orders asked for were made, costa of £l5 15s and disbursments being allowed to the Law Society in each case. LOVE OF LIQUOR. SOLICITOR SUSPENDED. WELLINGTON, September 23. The Court of Appeal this afternoon dealt with an application by the Uie.v Zealand Law Society for disciplinary action to Reginald Bernard Hill, barrister and solicitor, formerly practising at Gisborne. The practitioner was represented by counsel, who said that no allegations of dishonesty had been made against his client. Th a complaints were merely as to his drinking habits over a number of years. Hill was a capable practitioner, but apparently from a doctor’s evidence he was unable to control his craving for liquor. He submitted that the public would be adequately protected if some lesser penalty than striking him off the rolls were inflicted.

The Court adjourned the Law Society’s application for two years. An order was made for the suspension of th,, practitioner in the meantime, liberty being reserved to him to apply for th,, removal of the suspension