HM Senior Coroner for Cornwall And the Scilly Isles [2024] EWHC 2673 (Admin). 22 October 2024. Judgment here
Where a Coroner has conducted an inquest and, through no fault of their own, done so on the basis of an incomplete picture of the circumstances surrounding the death, both the interests of the bereaved and the public interest will make a fresh investigation and inquest both necessary and desirable in the interests of justice.
In this recent example of a Senior Coroner seeking to overturn their own inquest after new information has come to light, the High Court efficiently heard together and granted two applications brought under s.13 Coroners Act 1988. In each case, substandard surgical care had first been implicated in the death some years after the original inquests had concluded