Auckland Standards Committee v Witehira [2012] NZLCDT 5 [pdf, 107 KB]
...his bank. He also applied funds to meet various expenses he had in his practice. There is clear dishonesty in his taking of the client funds. [29] The Tribunal does not accept that this was a single, spur-of-the-moment lapse in judgment as claimed for Mr Witehira. This was a deliberate misappropriation occurring on two separate occasions, followed, in the case of the first amount misappropriated, by a number of separate acts involving further application of those funds; (a) t...