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Coroners Society National Conference 2019: The challenge of terrorism

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For the first time, the Coroners Society of England and Wales has invited fellow professionals who are not coroners to attend on the Friday of its Annual Conference – 27 September 2019 held in Essex. A programme including eminent speakers will address ‘Responding to the challenge of terrorism’. The meeting will be of interest to lawyers, doctors, pathologists, police, […]

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University of Bolton: Coronial Law Course 2019

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The University of Bolton Coronial Law Course is a pioneering and unique series of professional development lectures delivered in partnership with the School of Law. A series of lectures, seminars and a mock inquest will presented on a number of dates in 2019 by experts in Coronial Law. The course is held in Bolton and Sheffield – further details are […]

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Costs against Coroners: being “neutral” means staying neutral, a partisan Coroner risks an adverse costs order.

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R (Paul Worthington) v Senior Coroner for Cumbria [2018] EWHC 3386 (Admin) Many will recall the much publicised judicial review brought by the Adath Yisroel Burial Society[1], which led to the Senior Coroner for Inner North London’s “cab rank” burial policy being quashed. When it came to costs, the Court held that the Coroner had […]

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Poppi Worthington’s abuser fails to remove an account of his acts from the Record of Inquest

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R (Worthington) v Senior Coroner for Cumbria [2018] EWHC 3386 (Admin) When public funding for deserving families at inquests is so hard to come by it is mystifying how the Legal Aid Agency can make a decision to spend their limited funds on an apparently unmeritorious challenge to inquest conclusions by one who was involved, […]

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The Grenfell Tower fire ‘Preventing Future Deaths’ report: the breadth and the limitations of PFDs.

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The Senior Coroner for Inner West London, Dr Fiona Wilcox, has made a report to prevent future deaths[1] (a “PFD report”) in connection with her investigation into deaths following the Grenfell Tower fire. Her report, issued on 19 September 2018, is a good illustration of the potential breadth of a coroner’s powers: the report focuses […]

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