National Standards Committee 1 v Gardner-Hopkins [2022] NZLCDT 2 (13 January 2022) [pdf, 211 KB]
...practitioner, that his client’s financial position is parlous and the inability to practise law will lead to his “financial ruin”. This notion is resisted by the Standards Committee who point to the relatively high living expenses per month claimed by Mr Gardner-Hopkins and his family. 10 However fraught such assessments might be in any event. 9 [42] At the hearing, the practitioner updated the Tribunal about his large debt to the Inland Revenue Department which he...