APPEAL COURT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 1 August 1911, Page 7

APPEAL COURT.

AN INTERESTING LAW POINT.

BY TELEGBAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION,

WELLINGTON, Aug. 1. . The Court of Appeal is sitting to-day, and the case Lucena v. the National Mutual Life Association of Australia is being heard. The case raises some interesting questions as to what extent communication made by a doctor to a patient or a patient to a doctor in the course of consultation is- provileged from disclosure in Courts of Law. The question turns on the construction of" section 8 (3) of the Evidence Act, 1908. The defendant company tendered evidence which was objected to by plaintiff ,of information, gained by observation during the examination, and later during an operation on plaintiff. Mr Treadwell appears for defandant company in support of the application to admit the evidence and Mr W. H. Bell for the plaintiff to object.