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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.
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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
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The Institute of Medical &
Biological Illustration
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The European Association of
Illustrators in Medicine
and Science
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