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Certificate in Coronial Services Professional Practice: Bolton University 2025

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CERTIFICATE (CPD) IN CORONIAL SERVICES: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE PART-TIME / ONLINE 1 YEAR STUDY PROGRAMME: COMMENCING 2024-25 The Cert(CPD) Coronial Services: Professional Practice at the University of Bolton is a specialised part-time programme that provides current and aspiring coroners’ officers with professional knowledge and skills. Aimed at those currently working in or aspiring to join the coronial services.This […]

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Article 2 obligations do not apply to clinical negligence by a private nursing home

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Sammut and ors v Next Steps Mental Health Care & Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust [2024] EWHC 2265 (KB), 2 September 2024. Judgment here Anyone who thought the issue of the engagement of Article 2 and health care might now be settled after Maguire[1] was being over-optimistic.  There seem to remain a myriad […]

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Inquests quashed in the interests of justice after fresh evidence reveals sub-standard treatment

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HM Senior Coroner for Cornwall And the Scilly Isles [2024] EWHC 2673 (Admin). 22 October 2024.  Judgment here Where a Coroner has conducted an inquest and, through no fault of their own, done so on the basis of an incomplete picture of the circumstances surrounding the death,  both the interests of the bereaved and the […]

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Voicing Loss Project Website

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The website of the Voicing Loss project:   A research and policy project on the role of bereaved people in coroners’ investigations and inquests. is now live here . The Voicing Loss project has examined the role of bereaved people in coroners’ investigations and inquests. The researchers conducted interviews with bereaved people, coronial professionals and witnesses, in addition […]

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