1 APRIL 1960, Page 5

Clinical Detail

Soat last the London Clinic have triumphed, with costs, over Lady Hoare in the House of Lords. The primary facts of the case, however, have not been in dispute since the findings of the

judge at first instance, where Lady Hoare also lost; it cannot be said that they reflect much credit on the Clinic. Whether the Court of Appeal (who themselves refused the Clinic leave to appeal further) or the House of Lords were right in the legal conclusions to be drawn from those facts is a nice question in the law of con- tract. It seems, at all events, hard that lady Hoare should have to pay the consequences of what is now pronounced to be the (unanimous) error of the three judges in the Appeal Court.