Solicitors who commence a proceeding without authority act at their peril

In Nominal Defendant v Kisse [2001] QDC 290 a person suffered personal injury caused by a motor vehicle in circumstances where there was a cause of action to which the Motor Accident Insurance Act 1994 applied. The person died before taking the steps required under Pt 4 of the Act and before commencing litigation to enforce that cause of action. The decision also involved a costs order against solicitors on an indemnity basis, providing a timely reminder to practitioners of the importance of ensuring they have proper authority before commencing any court proceedings.

Salvador Rueda, innovador y actual.

Uno de los poetas más olvidados al estar confrontado con los grandes. Se trata de rescatar su poesía, profusamente estudiada a principios de siglo y señalar lo original de sus aciertos y su influjo poco reconocido, en la lírica contemporánea. Rueda en sus versos fue expansivo, soleado como Málaga. La luz lo irradiaba todo y el oxígeno. En su estética se le acusa de falta de tino y de selección en los temas, en las imágenes y en los vocablos; se censura lo desmesurado e hiperbólico de su imaginación; se le tacha de gárrulo, de vano y superficial. La falta de formas pulidas y trabajadas, exiguo poder de síntesis, la escasa percepción de lo exquisito, del matiz, son según la mayor parte de los críticos, lunares en su labor poética. El preparó al menos la retina poética española, de visión harto burda en su tiempo, incapaz de percibir los juegos colorísticos y luminosos y los hizo aptos para los sutiles malabarismos ópticos de los modernistas.

Unusually rapid growth of brown tumour in the mandible after parathyroidectomy associated with the presence of a supernumerary parathyroid gland

The aim of this study is to report the case of a quick growing brown tumour in the jaw after a parathyroidectomy due to the presence of a rare fifth parathyroid gland. The patient had chronic renal disease and the diagnosis was tertiary hyperparathyroidism. Thirty days after the parathyroidectomy, the patient returned with a significant increase in the tumour size. The suspicion of a supernumerary gland was confirmed by parathyroid scintigraphy. The treatment of brown tumour is dependent on the treatment of the hyperparathyroidism. However, curettage should be considered if a large lesion is disturbing mastication. In conclusion, this case should attract the attention of general practitioner dentists, since they may be the first professionals who have contact with the patient with a brown tumour in the jaws. Likewise, this case emphasises the importance of knowing the type of hyperparathyroidism involved to allow for effective treatment planning. © 2011 European Association for Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery.

Tuberculosis in early medieval Switzerland - osteological and molecular evidence

Lesions consistent with skeletal tuberculosis were found in 13 individuals from an early medieval skeletal sample from Courroux (Switzerland). One case of Pott’s disease as well as lytic lesions in vertebrae and joints, rib lesions, and endocranial new bone formation were identified. Three individuals with lesions and one without were tested for the presence of MTBC aDNA, and in two cases, evidence for MTBC aDNA was detected. Our results suggest the presence of tuberculosis in the analyzed material which is in accordance with other osteological and biomolecular research that reported high prevalence of tuberculosis in medieval skeletons.