In the matter of Steponaviciene’s Application [2018] NIQB, 16.11.18 As coroners, lawyers and the bereaved wait to find out how the Court of Appeal will decide the Maughan case this coming April[1], a decision from across the Irish Sea has looked in detail at the English and Welsh Divisional Court’s decision in Maughan and found […]
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For the first time, the Coroners Society of England and Wales has invited fellow professionals who are not coroners to attend on the Friday of its Annual Conference – 27 September 2019 held in Essex. A programme including eminent speakers will address ‘Responding to the challenge of terrorism’. The meeting will be of interest to lawyers, doctors, pathologists, police, […]
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The University of Bolton Coronial Law Course is a pioneering and unique series of professional development lectures delivered in partnership with the School of Law. A series of lectures, seminars and a mock inquest will presented on a number of dates in 2019 by experts in Coronial Law. The course is held in Bolton and Sheffield – further details are […]
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R (Paul Worthington) v Senior Coroner for Cumbria [2018] EWHC 3386 (Admin) Many will recall the much publicised judicial review brought by the Adath Yisroel Burial Society[1], which led to the Senior Coroner for Inner North London’s “cab rank” burial policy being quashed. When it came to costs, the Court held that the Coroner had […]
R (Worthington) v Senior Coroner for Cumbria [2018] EWHC 3386 (Admin) When public funding for deserving families at inquests is so hard to come by it is mystifying how the Legal Aid Agency can make a decision to spend their limited funds on an apparently unmeritorious challenge to inquest conclusions by one who was involved, […]