Seven years after first being charged for criminal breach of trust, Napier lawyer Richard Henry Hill has been struck off the roll of barristers and solicitors.
Mr Hill was found guilty of the charge in the Hastings District Court last year, the offending occurring when he was working as a lawyer and trust account partner in his previous law firm McKay Hill.
He joined four other lawyers in Hawke's Bay who had been struck off the roll in the last five years.
He was sentenced to eight months' home detention and 100 hours of community work, and also faced disciplinary charges laid by the Hawke's Bay Standards Committee of the New Zealand Law Society.
He was suspended by the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal from practising in August 2016.