A NELSON BARRISTER

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11246, 26 June 1922, Page 7

A NELSON BARRISTER

LAW SOCIETY'S ACTION. THE CASE ADJOURNED. Judgment ivas filed on Saturday in the Supreme Court (Nelson district) in respect of the Law Practitioners Act, I!K>\ v. U.J.A., a barrister and solicitor. -Vlr Fell apirea red for the Nelson Law Society, and Air A. A\ . Blair for the practitioner. In reviewing tile case, the court said thin was a rule calling npon the above-named R.J.A. to show cause why he should not bo struck off the rolls of barristers and solicitors of the court, or suspended hem acting as a barrister and solicitor, or why some other order should not in' made. The question was what powers the court had to restrain a barrister and solicitor who was within the terms of section 111 and was disqualified, except with the leave of the court, from entering into altar contract except for necessaries. The court contended that a solicitor had by law come to be deemed incapable of managing his affairs and, without the leave of the court, of entering into any contract excopt for necessaries required, in the court’s opinion, only to be stated to be recognised as a reasonable cause for restraining him from practice while that state of things continued. As Mr A. had not been practising for almost a year, be should bo given an opportunity of re-establishing his status instead of being immediately restrained from practising. The court therefore would not make the rule absolute now, but would adjourn the proceedings to September next at Wellington.