Author: Bridget Dolan QC

Henry Gargan’s and Edward Butler’s Application [2023] NIKB 103 Although often overshadowed by the Bloody Sunday killings a few weeks earlier, the Springhill killings of 9 July 1972 still stand out as one of the most notorious events during the troubles. The five people shot dead in Belfast that day included three teenagers and a Catholic priest, who was said to have been waving […]

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R (Bryan) v HM Assistant Coroner for Buckinghamshire [2024] EWHC (Admin) 26, 12 January 2024 This most tragic of cases concerned the loss of two precious and irreplaceable lives when Ms Redmond put herself in the path of a train whilst holding her three year old daughter. The inevitable conclusion of suicide in Ms Redmond’s […]

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Death and taxes: the past, present and future of the coronial service A lecture by the Chief Coroner of England and Wales, HHJ Thomas Teague KC, celebrating 10 years post-reform The Chief Coroner’s speech on the tenth anniversary of the implementation of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, delivered on 22 November 2023 and available […]

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A short course for coroners, judges, lawyers and medical professionals Course director: Peter Thornton , Visiting Professor at King’s College London (the first Chief Coroner of England and Wales) In person at King’s College London, Strand Campus, Bush House  Tuesdays on the following dates: 20, 27 February and 5,12,19 March 2024. The course will consist […]

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