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GAZETTE

MAY 1 9 88

Cor respondence

The Editor,

Law Society Gazette,

Blackhall Place,

Dublin 7.

14th March 1988

Re: Irish Permanent Building

Society and

Grants of Probate

Dear Sirs,

It has come to our attention in a

recent case t hat t he Irish

Permanent Building Society has

commenced a practice whereby

Grants of Probate with account

transfer forms are remitted to

branch offices with a view to

branch staff getting in touch

d i r ec t ly

w i t h t he

Personal

Representative or Beneficiary as

the case may be in order to secure

the funds with that Society.

Although there was no difficulty

in the case in question with our

client, we could easily envisage cir-

cumstances whereby a solicitor

might have given an undertaking to

a Bank to discharge funeral, testa-

mentary and other expenses and be

relying on the proceeds of an

I.P.B.S. account to discharge the full

amount due to the Bank. Clearly

under the I.P.B.S. new procedures it

might become impossible for a

solicitor to comply with such an

undertaking.

The Society might possibly take

this matter up with the Irish Per-

manent Building Society. In the

meantime we, in the future, will be

having all Executors and Adminis-

trators sign express authorities

requiring that financial institutions

return Grant of representation and

withdrawal forms/name transfer

forms rather than same being

passed to the client direct.

Yours sincerely,

HARRY SEXTON

Solicitor

Sexton Keenan & Co.,

138 Walkinstown Avenue,

Dublin 12.

Most med i co - l egal

pho t o-

graphers should be available on a

call service, but this is up to the

individual photographer. Those

with enough experience tend to

operate on a " no foal - no fee"

basis, as this is the type of market

that the medico-legal photographer

has to work in. This type of

payment condition however is not

adopted by all medical illustrators

and one should inquire, before any

commission is ordered.

Th r oughout the wo r l d, the

governing bodies for medical illus-

trators are greatly concerned that

non-qualified people are carrying

out medico-legal work. It is not only

doing medical photography harm

but it could have serious

ramifications for those commis-

sioning

wo rk

f r om

these

individuals.

It is most important for medical

and ethical reasons that the

inclusion of medico-legal illus-

trations, for use as evidence in

court, be produced by those

suitably qualified to do it.

What training does a medical

photographer have to enable him to

carry out his job with efficiency and

the utmost professionalism?

We shall assume that a minimum

of three years study into physiology

and anatomy has been carried out.

This still only equips the medical

photographer with a basic level of

medical knowledge, and it is the

foundation of a course of study to

last the remainder of his working

life. Aside from this there is a

concurrent study of chemistry,

physics, graphic design, photo-

graphic optics, and photography

itself, lasting between three and

five years.

On top of this, medical photo-

graphers are expected to study

and ce r t i fy in television and

video production, sound recording

and editing, the writing and pre-

sentation of reports, and com-

puter

s t ud i es

i nco r po r a t i ng

computer generated imaging and

graphics.

It

does

seem

a

t r i f le

disappointing, if not totally exas-

perating, t hat after years of

edification, people flee from your

presence aghast that one should

even like looking at injuries let

alone photographing them, along

with contagions of one form or

another.

X-rays can be turned into black and

white photographs

for ease of

viewing in Court.

COL IN G. GOGG IN

Medical Photographic

Consultant

Medical & Legal Photography

for cases of Litigation

MEMBER OF

The Institute of Medical &

Biological Illustration

The European Association of

Illustrators in Medicine

and Science

The British Insitute of

Professional Photography

*

The Master Photographers

Association

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