A lawyer has been struck off for breaching trust account requirements and professional obligations.
Tim Ban Choon Tee was struck off the roll of barristers and solicitors of the High Court of New Zealand by the Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal.
This follows the tribunal's finding in April that three charges brought against Tee by the law society's Canterbury-Westland standards committee had been proven.
Tee was found to have breached trust account requirements and professional obligations in respect of three clients.
These breaches included taking $1400 of client funds in a trust account and applying them for his own purposes, borrowing $52,000 from a client without raising the need for independent advice, and receiving $10,000 from a client without properly accounting for it.
