SOLICITOR FINED
TRUST ACCOUNT AUDIT
DELAY "IN MAKING- RETURNS [from our own* correspondent] : • HAMILTON", Monday A solicitor, Arthur Ev«rerd Seaton, was prosecuted by the Hamilton Law Society in the Hamilton Police Court to-day for failing to submit certified lists of his trust account for audit. Mr. Strang, for tlfe society, said the prosecution was instituted by reason of defendant's protracted failure to comply with section 16 of the regulations of the' Law Practitioners Act, 1931. It was. a question of dilatoriness and procrastination. The returns had lately been submitted and the Act complied with. * Mr. Johnson, who pleaded guilty on defendant's behalf, said the prosecution was the result of Seaton's failure to do five minutes' work at the end of each month. Seaton had only six trust accounts, aggregating £3O, and there was no question of his probity being myolved.
Mr.' Johnson said this case was the first taken by the society, and as far as he "knew it was the first in New Zealand. * After mentioning that the maximum penalty was £IOO, the magistrate, Mr. S. L. Paterson, imposed a fine of £lO and costs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22032, 12 February 1935, Page 12
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186SOLICITOR FINED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22032, 12 February 1935, Page 12
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