Topic
Inquests
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UK Inquest Law Blog
Resuming an inquest (or not) after a homicide trial
R(Bailey) v HM Senior Coroner for East London [2025] EWHC 1637 (Admin) 30 June 2025 (judgment here) Once the investigative obligation under Article 2 ECHR is engaged an inquest will…
UK Inquest Law Blog
Sharing skeleton arguments and written submissions at inquests
R (Metropolitan Police Commissioner) v Police Conduct Panel [2025] EWHC 1462 (Admin) 17 June 2025, judgment here Skeleton arguments and written submissions are often emailed to coroners in advance of…
UK Human Rights Blog
Law Pod UK latest: Raising Racism at Inquests
In Episode 201 Emma-Louise Fenelon speaks to Emma Snell of JUSTICE and Christian Weaver, a barrister at Garden North Chambers about Achieving Racial Justice at Inquests: A Practitioner’s Guide (2024), a…
Canadian Lawyer Mag
UK study reveals challenges faced by bereaved families at inquests
Families often feel overwhelmed and disadvantaged as they navigate the coronial process
UK Human Rights Blog
Schrödinger’s Defendants: Inquests, Unlawful Killing and Criminal Acquittals
By Matthew Hill
Three recent cases indicate a substantial change in law and practice, with inquests now seemingly free to make a determination of unlawful killing notwithstanding the acquittal of a defendant at…
UK Human Rights Blog
The beginning of a pushback against Article 2 inquests?
In R (Morahan) v HM Assistant Coroner for West London [2022] EWCA Civ 1410, the Court of Appeal robustly rejected a challenge to the earlier decision of the Divisional Court…
Steve Cornforth Blog
Legal Aid and Inquests – again!
I have rarely been at an Inquest that was not adversarial.In all of my years of practice, a constant theme has been the injustice faced by family members at Coroners’…
UK Human Rights Blog
Guidance from Divisional Court on Article 2 inquests
Image: Wikipedia In R (Morahan) v West London Assistant Coroner [2021] EWHC 1603 (Admin), the Divisional Court provided detailed guidance on the circumstances in which an enhanced investigation under Article…
UK Human Rights Blog
Is an expert report prepared for the purposes of an inquest covered by litigation privilege?
By Matthew Hill
In the matter of an application for Judicial Review by Linda Kercher and Carol Mitchell [2020] NICA 31; [2020] Inquest L.R. 76 A niche question, but an important one for those…
UK Human Rights Blog
Application for fresh inquest refused
Farrell v HMC for North East Hampshire [2021] EWHC 778 (Admin) Applying for a fresh inquest is not straightforward. First, the bereaved have to get permission from the Attorney General.…