The Gazette 1967/71

negligence on the part of the fire brigade and the plaintiffs' claim for damages failed. (Amos. v. Glamorgan County Council. Novem ber 20th, 1967. 1967 66 L.G.R. 166). APPRENTICES' FORUM The Hospitalisation of the Law Society No sooner had the announcement that the In corporated Law Society of Ireland had purchased the King's Hospital as its new headquarters been made than speculators and commentators pub lished their views on various aspects of its adop tion and adaptation. The Building was designed by one, Thomas Ivory, who started life as a carpenter in Cork. This means that the Law Society will be able to continue its great tradition of operating within an Ivory Tower. Furthermore, the building was erected between 1773 and 1783, and its architec ture is therefore very much in keeping with the period when our present system of apprentice ship was devised. However, when the new Law School is established in the King's Hospital, there will be no pressure on apprentices to wear Blue Coats. The main feature of the new Law School will be the fact that legal subjects will actually be taught and learned by professors and students respectively, instead of the present lecture system. Also, since the King's Hospital was founded by Charter in the reign of Charles II, it is hoped to commemorate this event by having special student charter flights each summer from the rear lawn. There will also be some recreational facilities for apprentices. For instance, the billiard room should be especially instructive for students of cannon law. A cafeteria will sell specially manu factured "Donnoghue v. Stevenson" Ginger Beer, and the gymnasium should prove beneficial to those run down by running down actions. The chapel is to be maintained as such, and an apprentices' choir will be formed. Anyone wishing to sing in a minor key will have to enter into a tenancy agreement for the letting of a flat. The tennis courts at the rear will enable the Chief Justice to appoint Commissioners for Oaths of the Tennis Court. It should be noted that there is not truth in the rumour that the entire project is being financed by Debentures of the Kings Inns, but Bar students hope to open a lounge. The Four Courts Library will be removed (lock, stock and librarian) to the King's Hospital, and it is hoped to use a novel indexing system where by students and practitioners alike will be able to actually find the books they are looking for. 64

did not know who the lessee was. he could not continue to act further in those negotiations or proceedings unless he disclosed the name of the client for whom he was acting. His Lordship also considered that the judge's order for costs against all three gentlemen, in cluding the solicitor, was properly made, although it was not known who the client was or whether the solicitor was acting as a solicitor and not as a party. The solicitor had brought it all on him self by the course he thought fit to adopt. The appeal should be dismissed. (Pascall v. Galinski [1969] 3 W.L.R. 626.) Failure to use red warning light — stationary fire engine at night The plaintiff was a young motor cyclist who held a provisional driving licence and usually wore spectacles when he rode his motor cycle. At just after 5 p.m. in broad daylight on a July evening he was riding his motor cycle in heavy rain, which was so bad that he could not wear his spectacles, when he ran into a stationary fire engine, as a result of which he sustained personal injuries. The local fire brigade had been called out to deal with a fire and the fire engine had been properly parked on the road for only two minutes before the accident happened. The driver had set two blue lights on the top of the fire engine flashing so as to warn oncoming traffic of its presence, but he had not put out the red warning- lamp on the road so as to give early warning to approaching traffic. The plaintiff, if he had kept a proper look-out, should have seen the fire engine when he was 80 yards away. He claimed damages against the local authority. The trial judge, Commissioner Temple Morris, found that the plaintiff and the local authority were equally to blame for the accident : the plaintiff in failing to keep a proper look out and take avoiding action and the local authority for the failure of the driver of the fire engine to place a red warning lamp on the road in front of the engine. He accordingly awarded the plaintiff £809 11s. damages. On appeal by the local authority. Held by the Court of Appeal (Sellers. L. J., Danckwerts, L. J. and Baker, J.) allowing the appeal, that, since the first duty of the fire brigade was to protect those in peril from the fire the driver of the fire engine was not guilty of negli gence in omitting to place a red warning lamp on the road, for the flashing of the blue lights on top of the fire engine was a sufficient indica tion to oncoming traffic of the presence of the fire engine; and that, accordingly, there was no