LAW QUERIES.
[Answered by a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Letters and Telegrams must be addressed to " LEX,” c/o Editor, Otago Witness, Dunedin.]
“ Palanquin,” Oamaru, asks : “A, who buys a private school from B, arranges with B to ask B’s staff to remain the following year, when A will be in control. The staff signs on. A decides to put a friend of his in the position occupied on the staff by C. Can the fact that C has signed on prevent A from giving him a half-term’s notice when the new year commences, and so dismissing him in order that A s friend may occupy the post ? ” No. “Constant Reader” asks: “(1) What is the usual legal charge- for handling an estate of a deceased person in estates up to the value of £2500, £5OOO, and £lO,OOO ? (2) What is the scale fee get down by the Supreme Court for estates of the above values, allowing that these estates are clean, straight, and easily settled ?’’ (1) There is no scale fee for solicitors’ charges in connection with estate matters. A fair scale of charges would be : On £2500, £27 16s 1 on £5OOO, £4O 19s; and on £lO,OOO, £67 4s. (2) There is no scale fee set down by the Supreme Court. The Law Society has been urged from time to time to make a scale of charges for estate work, but nothing has been done in the matter.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3996, 14 October 1930, Page 46
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243LAW QUERIES. Otago Witness, Issue 3996, 14 October 1930, Page 46
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