Frost v HM Coroner for West Yorkshire (Eastern District) [2019] EWHC 1100 (Admin) Where new evidence becomes available which renders an inquest’s factual basis inaccurate the interests of justice remain the touchstone for applications under section 13: even the passage of over half a century does not remove the necessity and desirability of ordering a fresh inquest. Here a bereaved […]
Re AB (Application for reporting restrictions: Inquest) [2019] EWHC 1668 (QB) When seeking any order it always helps to make the right application, to the right court, following the right procedure. Although when it does go horribly wrong it at least provides valuable learning for the rest of us. So make sure you are sitting […]
Inquest into the death of Geoff Gray, 20.6.2019 (Findings of fact) The long running second inquest into the death of Private Geoff Gray at Deepcut Barracks ended yesterday when HH Peter Rook QC[1] returned a conclusion of suicide. Geoff was only 17 years old when he was found dead from gunshot wounds in the grounds […]
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The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care v (1) NMC (2) Anne Ndlovu [2019] EWHC 1181 (Admin) It is rare that healthcare staff are seriously dishonest in their evidence to an inquest, although sadly such conduct does at times happen. Even when criminal prosecutions are not subsequently pursued, this recent appeal is a […]
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R (Chidlow) v Senior Coroner for Blackpool and Flyde [2019] EWHC 581 (Admin) Humans’ bodies being such complex organisms it is unsurprising that medical causation is often extremely complicated and that the law regarding the legal causation of medical injuries can be particularly convoluted. Indivisible injuries, multifactorial causation, material contribution, loss of a chance etc. […]