The steep increase in the number of deaths occurring outside hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic brings a concomitant rise in the number of deaths requiring verification in the community. Attending those who have died in the community clearly puts health care workers at increased risk of Covid-19 infection themselves. In response the NHS has put out guidance […]
The Bishop of St Albans, Dr Alan Smith has introduced a Bill aimed at using the coronial system to record where gambling addiction has contributed to suicide. If the Coroners (Determination of Suicide) Bill [HL] (HL Bill 32) is passed, then where the inquest’s conclusion is suicide, the coroner or jury will be required to […]
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Namiq v Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWCA Readers of this blogger’s generation will already know that the answer to the Meaning of Life is 42. The Court of Appeal have now addressed a question too momentous for even Douglas Adams to tackle – what is the meaning of death?[1] Last month in Manchester […]
R (Lee) v HM Assistant Coroner for Sunderland [2019] EWHC 3227 (Admin) Regular readers of our blog will recall this case dealing with the tricky issue of whether Art 2 obligations are engaged when a person dies whilst receiving psychiatric care in the community (see the earlier blog here). In Lee v HM Assistant Coroner […]
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Jordan v The Chief Constable of the PSNI [2019] NICA 61 The latest instalment of the long running Pearse Jordan inquest saga provides an important warning to all coroners and other public bodies involved in Article 2 investigations where there is delay in coming to inquest because of shortcomings on the part of a public body […]
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