R (Silvera) v Senior Coroner Oxfordshire [2017] EWHC 2499 Admin Inquests play an essential role in ensuring public accountability when our hard pressed public services don’t always manage to get things right. That inquests allow for the full involvement of the family when publicly exploring the facts and coming to the understanding of what has […]
R (Heinonen and Sawko) v Senior Coroner for Inner South London [2017] EWHC 1803 (Admin) It is often distressing for a bereaved family to contemplate their loved one being subject to a post-mortem examination, even in the context of a wish to have the cause of their death explained. When the resultant autopsy report contains […]
Inquests often reveal matters that are of concern but which are unlikely to give rise to a risk of future deaths and so fall outside the reg. 28 “Report on Action to Prevent Future Deaths” provisions (the ‘PFD report’). Yet it is often overlooked that where the duty to make a PFD report does not […]
Ewing v Cardiff and Newport Crown Court [2016] EWHC 183 (Admin) Bereaved friends and other members of the public often take notes of the evidence given in Coroner’s Courts. Whilst Coroners can dictate much of the practice and procedure within their own courts, the recent case of Ewing in the criminal jurisdiction has clarified that […]
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R (Fullick) v HM Coroner for Inner London North [2015] EWHC 3522 (Admin) Susan Jones died after falling ill at a police station after she had attended the station voluntarily as a witness. An alcoholic, homeless and on methadone, she was vulnerable and police statements made it clear that the officers felt they owed her […]
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