IPSO – Reporting on Suicide: Guidance for journalists and editors, 1 November 2023 Open justice must be a crucial principle in any fair and ethical society. Fair, accurate and contemporaneous media reporting of court proceedings is to be encouraged, and media reporting of matters stated in open court should only be curtailed when strictly necessary. […]
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Short Course on Coronial Law The Centre for Contemporary Coronial Law at the University of Bolton is pleased to announce that the previously successful short course on Inquest Law & Practice is to be repeated in 2023 This course prepares participants for work connected to or within the coronial service – it covers theoretical and […]
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Forensic Imaging Volume 34, September 2023 This recent journal article ‘Rutty’s Rules”: Baseline guidance to safe postmortem computed tomography. by Prof Guy Rutty Sets out his ten basic guidance rules to aid develop or run established postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) reporting services. https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2666-2256(23)00027-1 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC […]
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ORR and Dorris v Secretary of State for Transport [2023] EWCR 1 This judgment, that was held back until the completion of a criminal trial, highlights again the thorny issue of the disclosure into subsequent legal proceedings of ‘protected material’ that has been collected during an independent Accident Investigation Branch’s (‘AIB’) investigation. Limited and proportionate […]
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R (Mid and West Wales Fire & Rescue Service) v Senior Coroner for Pembrokeshire & Carmarthenshire and Marine Accident Investigation Branch [2023] EWHC 1669 (Admin) The High Court’s Norfolk[1] decision has sat uneasily with some in the coronial law community. Although coroners have a statutory duty to investigate a cause of death, the effect of […]