JUDGMENT FOR SOLICITORS
MENTAL PATIENT’S CASE. NO DIRECTION MADE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.> AUCKLAND, To-day. In giving judgment to-day in favour of a firm of solicitors who claimed £29S 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 the estate of the mental patient must first provide for his maintenance, but in this case the estate was obtained largely as the result of the solicitors’ efforts. If the Minister of Mental Hospitals agreed, the Public Trustee might quite properly pay the solicitors a sum up to £2OO.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 28 February 1935, Page 6
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