Author: Bridget Dolan QC

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More Art 2 Inquests required after public bodies’ regulatory failures?

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Cevrioğlu v. Turkey, ECtHR (Application no. 69546/12), January 2017 Coroners feeling relief that amendments to the Policing and Crime Bill will mean that the burden is about to be lifted from them of conducting inquests after any death of a person subject the Mental Capacity Act DOLS provisions might wonder if their workload will nevertheless […]

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Assessing complex inquest evidence: What if a different coroner might take a different view?

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McDonnell v Assistant Coroner for West London [2016] EWHC 3078 (Admin) Leo McDonnell died due to a fatal cardiac arrhythmia. At the time of his death he was prescribed nine items of medication including citalopram, amitriptyline, quinine and codeine. To prescribe citalopram alongside some of these drugs was contraindicated and his prescribed daily dose of […]

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Whose death is it anyway? The right to dispose of a body and pre-death decision making in plain English

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Re JS (Disposal of Body) EWHC 2859 (Fam) Last month saw the three Brexit judges on the front pages, unfairly lambasted by the media just for doing their jobs properly. It’s a shame that the press who seem, on the whole, to rather like this latest Family Court decision, haven’t sought to make Mr Justice […]

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