NOT AUDITED.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17982, 29 March 1930, Page 9

NOT AUDITED.

LAW SOCIETY ACTION.

AGAINST WELLINGTON SOLICITOR. “MOST SERIOUS NEGLECT.” (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. Proceedings brought by the New Zealand Law Society against George Mackay, solicitor, of Wellington, for having failed to have his trust account audited up to March 31, 1929, cmac before the Court of Appeal this morning. Mr Von Haast, who appeared with Mr Free for the Law Society, said the Court would see from the affidavits that the practitioner had failed to have his trust account audited, and had been fined £SO for such. The Law Society communicated with him, and he promised to have an audit undertaken, but took no steps until about the commencement of the present session of the Court of Appeal. An audit had now been filed, hut only up to March 31 last.

The Chief Justioe here pointed out that under the Law Practitioners’ Amendment and Soldiers’ Fidelity Guarantee Fund Act the Law Society had power to insist on an audit up to date.

Mr D. ML Findlay, who represented Mackay, said he understood that Mackay had done practically nothing for some months past. The amount to the credit of the trust account at March 31 was £2 8s Bd. It was quite well known that he had not been attending to his practice, and his neglect to reply to the Law Society’s requisition was in accordance with this neglect of the whole of his work. The auditor had recently informed him that everything was now in order. Mr Findlay now requested that the Court should deal with the matter immediately and dispose of it, as Mackay was practically out of practice. The Chief Justice remarked that it was the most serious neglect, and was censurable in the highest degree. He said the Court would indicate its view of the matter on Monday or Tuesday.