FAILURE TO AUDIT.

Otago Witness, Issue 3774, 13 July 1926, Page 17

FAILURE TO AUDIT.

WELLINGTON, July 6 The Court of Appeal was engaged to-day .hearing an application by the Wellington Law Society to deal with William Henry Tustin, of Wellington, solicitor, for failure to audit his trust account. Counsel for defendant stated that the intention of the Law Society was that the offence should be dealt with as a technical breach of a duty imposed by the Law Practitioners Act to audit a trust account. Irregularities had been going on since the big fire at Raetibi which had caused a slump in business and had forced defendant to come to Wellington and start in practice here. The Chief Justice ithe Hon. M. Justice Skerett) was of the opinion that the court should only deal witn the specific charge of failure to audit a trust account and stated that the judgment of the court would be that Tustin should be suspended for three months on this charge alone, and if the Law Society thought fit, on investigation, the matter could again be brought before the court. The comt allowed £ls 15s costs and disbursements to the society. Mr Von Haast appeared for the society and Mr Cornish for the defendant.