Cheape v New Zealand Law Society - [1955] NZLR 63

Law Practitioners — Solicitors' Fidelity Guarantee Fund — Client entrusting Sum of Money to Solicitor with Specific Direction as to Its Application — Solicitor paying Same in Amounts and to Persons and for Purposes in Contravention of Such Direction — Fraudulent Misappropriation of Client's Funds held under Direction — Solicitor guilty of Theft of Moneys entrusted to him — Such Moneys to be reimbursed to Client out of Solicitors' Fidelity Guarantee Fund — Crimes Act. 1908, s 244 — Law Practitioners Act, 1931, s 84.

Evidence — Criminal Issue arising in Civil Proceedings — Allegation of Theft — Nature of Proof.