14 AUGUST

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

2671

OTHER

Russell McVeagh

Notice of Legal Proceedings

To: Austin Hong Hee Choo

Take notice that a claim for judgment in the amount of
$27,382.47 for unpaid supply of legal services from June
2002 to October 2002 has been filed against you by Russell
McVeagh in the District Court at Auckland.

If you have a defence to the plaintiff’s claim, you should,
not more than 30 days after the publication of this notice,
file with the District Court at Auckland a statement of
defence setting out your defence to the claim, and serve a
copy of that document on the plaintiff.

If you fail to do so, judgment may be entered against you.

The details of the claim against you can be obtained from
the District Court at Auckland at the corner of Kingston
and Albert Streets (proceeding number 03/004/1634) or from
Russell McVeagh at the address for service below.

Address for Service: Russell McVeagh, Level Thirty,
Royal & SunAlliance Centre, 48 Shortland Street, Auckland,
New Zealand (Attention: L. N. Boell).
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Land Transfer Act Notices

Land Transfer Act Notice

I hereby give notice of my intention, pursuant to section
215B of the Land Transfer Act 1952, to issue new or
provisional instruments of title in place of those declared
lost and described in the Schedule below upon the expiration
of 14 days from the date of the publication in the
New Zealand Gazette.

Schedule

(Certificate of title reference or instrument number;
registered proprietor’s name; application number.)

1. WN99/234; Kevin James Smith and Raewyn Mary
   Smith; 5686841.1.

Land registration district of Wellington.

Dated at the Wellington Office of Land Information
New Zealand Processing Centre this 11th day of August
2003.

R. W. MUIR, Registrar-General of Land.

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General Notices

Disciplinary Tribunal of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of New Zealand—Notice of Decision
(Member Guilty of Misconduct in a Professional
Capacity, Conduct Unbecoming and Breaching
the Code of Ethics)

At a hearing of the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of New Zealand held on the 30th day
of July 2003, at which the member attended by teleconference
and was represented by counsel, the tribunal recorded that
Brett William Knock pleaded guilty to the following
charges and admitted the following particulars:

THAT in terms of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of
New Zealand Act 1996 and the Rules made thereunder, and
in particular Rule 21.30, the member has been guilty of:

● misconduct in a professional capacity (Particular 2);

● conduct unbecoming an accountant (Particulars 1 (a),
(b), (c), (d), (e));

● breach of the institute’s Code of Ethics, specifically,
Fundamental Principles 1 and 5, and Ethical Guidelines
No. 13 and No. 47.

IN THAT

● In the course of practice as a chartered accountant in
public practice, the member:

(a) held client funds, totalling $30,000.00, in a trading
account for two years when the funds should have
been paid to I.R.D.;

(b) failed properly to advise the member’s client as to
his responsibilities to file annual returns of income;

(c) failed to obtain sufficient and/or additional
information from the member’s client to enable the
completion of taxation returns;

(d) failed properly to respond to requests from I.R.D. for
outstanding returns to be dealt with and/or failed to
advise the member’s client of this matter;

(e) improperly exposed the member’s client to I.R.D.
interest and penalties which the member subsequently
paid on the client’s behalf;

● In the course of the final determination hearing before
the institute’s professional conduct committee and after
taking legal advice, the member volunteered that he had
misappropriated client funds to the value of a minimum
of $300,000.00.

The tribunal found the member guilty as charged and the
particulars proven.

Orders of the Tribunal

Following consideration of evidence and submissions for the
professional conduct committee and submissions on behalf
of the member, the tribunal made the following orders;

(a) Pursuant to Rule 21.31 (a) of the Rules of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand,
the disciplinary tribunal ordered that the name of
Brett William Knock be removed from the
institute’s Register.

(b) Pursuant to Rule 21.33 of the Rules of the Institute
of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand, the
disciplinary tribunal ordered that Brett William
Knock pay to the institute the sum of $2,782.00