Representing Clients in the Coroners Court & Enhancing Your Advocacy: Strategies and Pitfalls

This specialist one-day advocacy training course is presented by The Centre for Contemporary Coronial Law at the University of Greater Manchester Wednesday 4 September 2025 In person venue: Army & Navy Club, Central London and online Click here for full details or Click here to book This highly practical course is designed for barristers and solicitors representing […]

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Low means low: the arguability threshold for the Article 2 procedural duty.

R (Ferguson) v  HM Assistant Coroner for Sefton, Knowsley & St Helens and the Chief Constable of Merseyside Police [2025] EWHC 1901 (Admin) 23 July 2025 –  judgment here Q1: What strength of evidence will make it arguable that an article 2 duty has arisen and/or make it arguable that a duty has been breached, […]

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“Over-interpreting a very speculative dataset”: theoretical possibilities need not be explored at an inquest

R (Drysdale) v HMAC Manchester (South) [2025] EWHC 1850 (Admin) 18 July 2025, judgment here To what extent an inquest must investigate possible causes of death is often a perplexing question. Until oral evidence is explored in a hearing it may not be known whether a possibility will crystallise into probability and so lend itself […]

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Attorney General’s delay to granting a fiat impacts the interests of justice

His Majesty’s Senior Coroner for West Yorkshire (Western District)  [2025] EWHC 1672 (Admin) 3 July 2025. Judgment here This Divisional Court judgment recounts what should have been a completely uncontroversial application under s.13 Coroners Act 1988 for a fresh inquest.   Some highly relevant evidence had come to light which was not before the Coroner at […]

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What next if the Attorney General refuses a fiat to seek a fresh inquest?

R (Campbell) v HM Attorney General of England and Wales [2025] EWHC 1653 (Admin) 1 July 2025 (judgment here) Anyone wanting the High Court to quash a finding made at an inquest and order a fresh investigation and inquest under s.13 of the Coroners Act 1988 will need the approval (a fiat) of the Attorney […]

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