Chief Coroner’s Guidance No. 37, 28.4.2020 The Chief Coroner has today released his further guidance to coroners during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chief Coroner sets out when a report to a coroner must be made and when an inquest will and will not be required into a death from what is a naturally occurring disease. He […]
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R (Carole Smith) v HM Assistant Coroner for North West Wales [2020] EWHC 781 (Admin) The High Court has emphatically supported a Coroner’s decision not to record admitted, non-causative failings in an Article 2 inquest conclusion. The court’s observations about the proper content of a Record of Inquest (ROI) will be thought-provoking for all Coroners […]
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The steep increase in the number of deaths occurring outside hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic brings a concomitant rise in the number of deaths requiring verification in the community. Attending those who have died in the community clearly puts health care workers at increased risk of Covid-19 infection themselves. In response the NHS has put out guidance […]
The Bishop of St Albans, Dr Alan Smith has introduced a Bill aimed at using the coronial system to record where gambling addiction has contributed to suicide. If the Coroners (Determination of Suicide) Bill [HL] (HL Bill 32) is passed, then where the inquest’s conclusion is suicide, the coroner or jury will be required to […]
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Namiq v Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWCA Readers of this blogger’s generation will already know that the answer to the Meaning of Life is 42. The Court of Appeal have now addressed a question too momentous for even Douglas Adams to tackle – what is the meaning of death?[1] Last month in Manchester […]