The Gazette 1984

GAZETTE

JULY/AUGIJST 1984

We show a greater interest on other people's money. a c c e p t i ng d e po s i ts on d ema nd s u p p o r t ed by t he best ma r ket depo s i t r a t e s. P h o ne u s now for a quo t e. CITYof D U B U n Q b A N K 2 Lower Merrion Street, Dublin 2. Phone 760141 763225. Ci ty of Dub l in Ba nk PLC. is a p u b l i c l imi t ed c omp a ny, quo t ed o n T h e S t o ck Ex c h a n ge — I r i sh. It is a b a n k l i censed by t he Ce n t r a l B a nk of I re l and a nd d e p o s i t s p l aced wi th u s have T r u s t ee S t a t u s . We a re also a n App r oved Ba nk by t he I n c o r p o r a t ed Law Soc i e ty to a c c ept c l i en t s' f u n d s on depos i i. We h a ve long expe r i ence dea l i ng w i t h So l i c i t ors a nd provide t he pe r f ect servi ce in t e rms of

requested them, is not valid. The [local] Minor [Ice] Hockey Association does not recommend the use of helmets when playing league games. You put on a helmet, or you don't play. Students must be told, when necessary, 'wear goggles'." 29 (2) Supervision in School Playgrounds It is beyond argument that some degree of supervision is necessary where children are playing in school play- grounds but the courts have been anxious to make it plain that too high a standard of care will not be demanded. As O Dálaigh C.J. said in Lennon -v- McCarthy 30 : "When normally healthy children are in the play- ground it is not necessary that they should be under constant supervision." Similarly, in the English decision of Rawsthorne -v- Ottley n , Hilbery J. expressed the view that:

"it is not the law, and never has been the law, that a schoolmaster should keep boys under supervision during every moment of their school lives." The Irish cases present interesting examples of the range of cases that can arise under the general heading of supervision. In Ryan -v- Madden 32 , the failure of a national school teacher to supervise young pupils, including the plaintiff, aged five, when they were leaving the building at the end of school hours was held to be negligence where the child slid down the bannisters from the upper floor (where the class-room was). In O'Gorman -v- Crotty 33 , a ten-year-old pupil, when being chased during play in the school playground, fell over one of the several wooden blocks which were lying in the playground. The blocks were sometimes used to support boards for use as seats, but appear to have served no positive function as play objects. In holding the school manager and principal teacher liable, O'Byrne J. stated: 155