Morris v Morris, Shmuel and White [2024] EWHC 2554 (Ch), 9 October 2024, Judgment here. On occasions a coroner may be faced with a case where the issue of another person aiding the deceased to take their own life arises. Whilst suicide has long been decriminalised, assisting someone to end their life remains a criminal […]
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 […]
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 […]
HM Senior Coroner Sarah Ormond-Walshe v Sherren [2024] EWHC 2332. Judgment (here) 30 July 2024 Language matters, particularly in public life. It is now well accepted that no coroner or inquest lawyer should ever say (or invite a jury to find) that someone has ‘committed suicide’. That archaic term connoting criminal conduct not only carries […]
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Senior Coroner for Northamptonshire v Lovell and Teague [2024] EWHC 2331 (Admin) 30 July 2024. Judgment here It is rare for the High Court to refuse an application by a Senior Coroner to overturn their own inquest. However in this case the judges were not persuaded that it was either necessary or desirable to make the […]