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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University of Bolton Centre for Coronial Law are looking to recruit professionals from the coronial system and related fields and/or industries to grow their bank of ‘Variable Hours Tutors’ across all fields relating to the investigation of deaths and Coroners’ inquests including both legal and medical areas. More information is here and for further information or an […]
The Coronial Law Lecture Series 2023 University of Bolton This course prepares participants for work connected to or within the coronial service – it covers theoretical and practical knowledge of how the law is applied, including traning in the process of coronial law and its practical application to individual scenarios. Delivered by experienced practitioners, the […]
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Leeson v HM Area Coroner for Manchester South (Donald McPherson & nine other interested parties) [2023] EWHC 62 (Admin) It is a very unusual coronial judicial review that has ten interested parties. Here nine of the ten were insurance companies with whom the bereaved widower, Mr McPherson, had taken out ‘excessive’ insurance on his wife’s life […]