ACQUITTED BY JURY.
Solicitor’s Auditor Before the Court. Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, August 19. Charged with making a false declaration that he personally audited the trust account of H. J. M. Thomson, a solicitor who had been sentenced for the theft of £BOOO of clients’ money, Lawrence M. M. Monteath, public accountant, was acquitted by the jury to-day. It had been stated in defence that Monteath had relied on another accountant for a certain amount of audit work, and Mr Justice Blair, in summing up, said it might be accepted that an auditor had to have a certain amount of assistance. The mere fact that an auditor used a certain amount of assistance would not make it untrue for him to say he had personally conducted an audit, but the question arose whether the amount of assistance Monteath received was such as to make it someone else’s audit. Apparently all Monteath did was to scrutinise the balances. The verdict of not guilty was returned in three hours.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 197, 20 August 1931, Page 16
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