APPLICATION TO STRIKE SOLICITORS OFF ROLLS.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, March IS. The Court of Appeal dealt with the application of the New Zealand- Law Society to have Ronald Gray Mason and Charles Ellis Waddingham, both of Auckland, barristers and solicitors, struck off the rolls of practising barristers and solicitors of the Dominion. Mr vqn Haast for the Law Society said the application was based on the grounds that the practitioners had failed to keep a separate trust account,
and done acts which amounted to misappropriation of trust moneys, had failed to have tKe trust account audited, had made fictitious entries to mislead their auditors, had a shortage in the trust account and had had cheques dishonoured on numerous occasions. Mr Singer, for the practitioners, said they had not deliberately failed to have their trust account audited. They had been in practice since the termination of the war, but latterly through muddle and incompetence in bookkeeping had fallen into irregularities. There never had been a great shortage, and at present there -was no deficiency. I he Court reserved its decision.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 66, 19 March 1931, Page 16
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