AUDIT OF ACCOUNT
SOLICITOR’S TRUST MONEY. LAW SOCIETY UPHELD. (B&- Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. The Appeal Court gave its decision to-day in the case of the New Zealand Law Society versus George Mackay, solicitor of Wellington, for having failed to have his trust account audited up to March 31, 1929. The Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers who delivered the decision stated that the practitioner’s trust account had now 'been audited up to Alarch 25 of this year and had been found to be correct and in the circumstances the Court was of opinion that the position would he sufficiently met by ordering Alackay to pay the Law Society’s costs. His Honour concluded “But we desire to make it plain firstly, that the Law Society, as, indeed it has recognised by file attitude it has taken up in the present case has a duty in a matter of this kind, secondly that a practitioner will not be permitted to ignore the Society in the performance of that duty, and thirdly that the Court is not disposed to treat Lightly conduct such as that for which the petitioner in this case had been brought before court.” Alackay was accordingly ordered to pay the Law Society’s costs £ls 15s &nd disbursements.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17984, 1 April 1930, Page 8
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