Screening Inquest Witnesses: An appropriate protection or a disproportionate intrusion into open justice?

Dyer v Assistant Coroner for West Yorkshire [2019] EWHC 2897 (Admin) If the tribunal, the lawyers and the jury who will be making the decision can watch a witness as they give live evidence one might ask why should it matter if the rest of the public and press might not see the witness’ face? […]

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Over half a century later it’s still in the interest of justice to order a fresh inquest

Frost v HM Coroner for West Yorkshire (Eastern District) [2019] EWHC 1100 (Admin) Where new evidence becomes available which renders an inquest’s factual basis inaccurate the interests of justice remain the touchstone for applications under section 13: even the passage of over half a century does not remove the necessity and desirability of ordering a fresh inquest. Here a bereaved […]

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