Author: Bridget Dolan QC

The Senior Coroner for Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon has issued five ‘Prevention of Future Deaths’ (‘PFD’) reports (see here) calling for “root and branch reform” of firearms legislation and training following the shooting of seven innocent people by Jake Davison with a legally-held shotgun in Plymouth in 2021. The Senior Coroner, Mr Ian Arrow, […]

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R (Police Officer B50) v HM Coroner for East Yorkshire and Kingston Upon Hull [2023] EWHC 81 (Admin) This case raised two very different questions of ‘safety’. The first, to be decided by police firearms officers: A man was in the street carrying an axe and walking with purpose. Police were aware the man had […]

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R (Makki) v South Manchester Senior Coroner and Molnar [2013] EWHC 80 (Admin) Yousef Makki was only 17 when he died as a result of a single stab wound to the chest from a flick-knife which had been wielded by another 17-year-old, Joshua Molnar during a confrontation. When Molnar was acquitted of homicide by a […]

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