R (Olabode) v HM Area Coroner for Manchester City & Manchester University NHSF Trust (2026) EWHC 810, 2 April 2026, judgment here. Coroners and inquest practitioners seeing this 31 page judgment land on a Maundy Thursday need not worry that they might now have a lot of reading to interrupt their Easter break. Despite the […]
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HM Area Coroner for Cumbria v Leech [2023] EWHC 3476 (Admin) In the wake of the Wandsworth decision (see our earlier blog post here) in which the High Court emphasised how correlation is not causation when dealing with a death from mesothelioma, those who read the above judgment from a s.13 application will be forgiven […]
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The recommendations arising from the project led by the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody (IAPDC)[1] with support from the Chief Coroner’s Office: ‘ “More than a paper exercise” – Enhancing the impact of Prevention of Future Death Reports’ (here), are to be widely welcomed. Indeed, it could be seen as a call to government […]
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R v Kadir [2022] EWCA Crim 1244 Not a true headline – but one we might well see if the coronial world remains as ignorant as this blogger was until yesterday of the requirement to seek approval from a foreign state before hearing any live oral evidence from abroad.[1] The Court of Appeal[2] have just […]
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Davison v HM Senior Coroner for Hertfordshire [2022] EWHC 2343 (Admin) There is little new law in an inquest being quashed and a fresh inquest being ordered after new expert evidence has been obtained. What is particularly unusual in this case is that the independent expert evidence upon which the s.13 application was founded was […]