The Gazette 1967/71

scription in respect of the same up to the date of the death, or for a period of not less than three months immediately preceding that date. MEDICO-LEGAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND At the Annual General Meeting of the above Society held at the Office of the Irish Medical Association on Tuesday 21st May 1968 the follow ing Officers were elected for the Session 1968/69. Patron: The Chief Justice Mr. Cearbhall O'Dal- aigh. President: Mr. Niall St. John McCarthy, S.C. Vice Presidents: Mr. Justice Kenny, Mr. D. O'Donovan, Dr. F. McLaughlin. Dr. B. Woods, Dr. H. Jocelyn Eustace. Hon. Secretary: Miss Thelma King. Hon. Treasurer: Captain James A. Kelly. Hon. Auditor: Mr. M. B. Daly. Council: Mr. Justice Murnaghan, Mr. Brendan McGrath, Professor P. Meenan, Dr. P. Bofin, Miss A. B. Cassidy, Mr. E. Fahy, Dr. P. D. J. Holland, Miss Carmel Killeen, Mr. Mat thew Russell. CORPORATE BODIES SOLICITORS' ASSOCIATION At the Annual General Meeting of the Association held on 27 th March, 1968, at the Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin, the following Officers were elected: Chairman: Brendan A. McGrath. Honorary Secretary: M. J. Leech. Honorary Treasurer: Charles Hyland. Committee: Messrs. William Conway, Patrick Kiely, Henry Murray, E. Rory O'Connor and Miss C. Killeen. Membership of the Association is open to whole-time salaried Solicitors in the State, Commercial Enterprises, Banks, Local Authorities, Statutory Bodies and Semi-State Bodies. The Association would welcome new members and full details regarding membership may be had from the Honorary Secretary, C/o The Incorporat ed Law Society, Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin. 18

the contract that the relationship was otherwise was irrelevant; In the circumstances of this case L was a servant and not an independent contractor. (Ready Mixed Concrete (South East) itd. v. Min ister of Pensions and National Insurance 2W.L.R. (1968) 775). Subsequent amputation of injured leg due to other causes; effect on damages for first injury In assessing damages in respect of injuries to the plaintiff's leg received in a road accident the Judge would have taken into account the plaintiff's fut ure discomfort, pain, restriction and loss of earn ing potential. Before the hearing of his action the plaintiff was wounded in an armed robbery and as a result the injured leg had to be amputated. The plaintiff relying on Performance Cars Ltd. V. Abraham (1962) 1 QB 33 submitted that the loss of the leg did not affect the amount of dam ages which he could recover. The defendant con tended that since after the amputation the plain tiff would suffer no further pain in his leg, and since any reduction in earning capacity or loss of the amenities of life would flow from the amput ation, for which the defendant was in no way liable, the Court should assess damages on the bas is of a temporary incapacity which ceased on the date of the amputation. It was held that there was a distinction between a supervening event which prevented an anticipated loss occuring, and one which caused a greater loss, whether or not of precisely the same kind, in which the anticipated loss was merged or submerged, as in the present case. Accordingly the plaintiff's actual and pro spective loss flowed from the defendants negligent act had not been reduced by the subsequent loss of the leg and damages should be assessed without reference to the subsequent loss of the leg. (Baker v. Willoughby SJ Vol. 112 No. 12 p. 234.) DEATH DUTIES The Minister for Finance has made an order entitled Death Duties (payment in stock of the 6£% Exchequer Stock 1971) Regulations 1968 (S.I. No. 137 of 1968) which provide that 6£% Exchequer Stock 1961 shall be accepted in pay ment of a death duty at par value where the de ceased has been the beneficial owner of the stock continuously from the date of the original sub­