Moreover, his judgment (starting off with an admirable reference to the Admiral Byng principle of
shooting one admiral pour encourager les autres) proceeds on the basis that the claimant was
entirely innocent of the outbreak of disease in the hospital in the light of which she resigned prior to a report highly critical of the hospital; while this may be technically correct, she was the chief executive at the time — when did the idea that the buck
stops at the top become so hopelessly old fashioned?