LAW SOCIETY SUED
AN INDEMNITY CLAIM. RESERVED JUDGMENT GIVEN. NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday. Reserved judgment was delivered today by Mr Justice Blair in the case in which Nelson Ben Bishop sought to recover from the New Zealand Law Society under the Law Practitioners (Solicitors’ Fidelity Guarantee, Fund) Act sums amounting to £1052 10s as reimbursement on account of misappropriations by Harold J. M. Thomson while practising as a solicitor at Inglewood. The sums related to advances of £IOOO and £3OO. The former sum was represented by certain deeds, the actual money having been misappropriated before the date of the coming into force of the Act under which the claim was brought. It was submitted that Thomson had stolen what was valuable property, but the judgment of the Court was that Thomson had got possession of these deeds by means of false, pretenees. The amount of £3OO had been admitted by the Law Society, but as sums amounting to £52 iOs had been paid by Thomson to the plaintiff the society claimed the. right lo sel that amount off as against •the £3OO. This His Honour held could not be sustained, and the judgment of the Court was in favour of plaintiff in -respect to £52 10s, -but against him on a claim for £IOOO. Tho Cou-r f ordered each of the parties lo pay their own costs.
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Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18619, 23 April 1932, Page 6
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