STRUCK OFF ROLL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 96, 19 July 1928, Page 7

STRUCK OFF ROLL

... AUCKLAND SOLICITOR. ... ALLEGED FAILURE TO ACCOUNT Application was made to the Court of Appeal this afternoon by the New Zealand Law Society to strike Archibald Lyon Denniston, a barrister and solicitor formerly practising at Auckland, off the roll of practising solicitors. The facts as Alleged by the Law Society were that in 1.923 Denniston was suspended by the court and costs amounting to £137 16s 3d were ordered to be paid by him. In 1923 ho was again suspended hut the order remained in court and was not executed. The present application was now made on the following grounds; (1) Thjat Denniston failed to- comply with the ‘above order for the payment of costs; (2) that Denniston failed to account for £l2B 15s 9cl paid to him on behalf of different clients; (3) that he had failed to pay h,is practising fees. Denniston was not represented nor did he appear, and after hearing counsel for the Law Society the court made an order striking Denniston off the rolls and ordering him to pay £ls los costs.