R (Wiggins) v HM Assistant Coroner Nottinghamshire [2015] EWHC 1658 (Admin), 26.3.2015 With the growing popularity of narrative verdicts in the mid-2000’s it had become common practice for Art 2 inquests to conclude with a lengthy jury narrative outlining a multitude of shortcomings by public bodies. That practice has largely died out: the Court of […]
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HM Coroner for the Isle of Wight v (1) HM Prison Service (2) Family of Alvin Bay (dec) [2015] EWHC 1360 (Admin), 1.4.2015 The sad case of Alvin Bay sets out no new proposition of law, but perhaps leads one to wonder whether there should be some mechanism to allow a Senior Coroner (or even […]
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How helpful would it be to have all the decided cases each year that are relevant to inquest law in the same place, so you could put your hand on them easily, with an index that also provided a summary line allowing you to see the key issues in the case on a quick scan, and a neat headnote to tell you […]
In a further court judgment in the long running saga of the investigations of the murder of solicitor Patrick Finucane, Stevens J, in the High Court of Northern Ireland, has held that the decision of the British Government not to hold an public inquiry that could examine the complicity of state agents and employees in his […]
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A jury has returned a verdict of misadventure in the inquest into the death of Habib Ullah. Mr Ullah was stopped by officers in order to search him for drugs in July 2008. During the course of the search Mr Ullah concealed a package of drugs in his mouth and officers restrained him in order […]