INTERESTING CASE.
CLAIAI AGAINST LAW SOCIETY. Per Press Association. NEW PLYAIOUTH, Feb. 21. Mr Justice Blair reserved his decision on Saturday in an interesting case under the solicitors’ fidelity guarantee fund, said to be the first of its kind in the Dominion, in which Nelson Ben Bishop proceeded against the New Zealand Law Society for £1052. The action arose out of the recent conviction of an Inglewood, solicitor, Harold Thomson, and his managing clerk, Robert Darlow, for misappropriation of trust funds. Nelson asks for the reimbursement of the money that Thomson, as his solicitor, should have paid him. The defence of the New Zealand Law Society is that the money was stolen before November, 1929, before the Law Practitioners Act came into force. During the hearing counsel for the Law Society explained that the society had already paid out £6200 to clients in respect of the defalcations of Thomson and Darlow, and that another £2OO had yet to be paid.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 70, 22 February 1932, Page 2
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160INTERESTING CASE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 70, 22 February 1932, Page 2
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