Solicitors' Costs.
MENTAL PATIENT'S ESTATE. PUBLIC TRUSTEE MAY PAY. SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association). AUCKLAND, Feb. 28. In giving judgment to-day in favour of a firm of solicitors who claimed £298 costs and disbursements from the Public Trustee (acting in the case of a mental hospital patient), Mr. Justice Fair refused an application for direction to the Public Trustee to pay the amount. His Honour said the estate of a mental patient must first provide for his maintenance, but in this case the estate was obtained largely as the result of the solicitors' effort. If the Minister-in-charge of Mental Hospitals agreed, the Public Trustee might quite properly pay the solicitors a sum up to £2OO.
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Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19345, 28 February 1935, Page 2
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