STOLEN TRUST FUNDS.
CLIENT SEEKS RECOVERY. LAW SOCIETY SUED. SEQUEL TO INGLE-WOOD CASE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCTATTON.] NEW PLYMOUTH, Sunday. Decision was reserved bv Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court on Saturday in an interesting case under the Solicitors' Fidelity Guarantee Fund. The case was said to bo the first of its kind in the Dominion. Nelson Ben Bishop proceeded against the New Zealand Law Society for £1052. The action arose out of the recent convictions of an [nglewood solicitor, Harold Thomson, and his managing clerk, Robert Darlow, for misappropriation of trust funds. Plaintiff asked for reimbursement of the money that Thomson, as his solicitor, should have paid him. The defence of the Law Society was that the money was stolen before November, 1929, before the Legal Practitioners' Act came into force. During the hearing, counsel for the Law Society explained that the society had already paid £5200 to clients in respect of the defalcations of Thomson and Dariow and that another £2OO had yet to be paid.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21113, 22 February 1932, Page 10
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169STOLEN TRUST FUNDS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21113, 22 February 1932, Page 10
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