Posted inInquests Special Issue

Covid-19 and Causation

One key factor that is driving the Government’s response to COVID-19 is the number of deaths. Those are deaths ‘from’ COVID-19, the number of deaths ‘with’ COVID-19, and the number of those who have died with or from COVID-19 who are ‘likely’ to have died within a certain period of…
July 22, 2020Posted inInquests, Special IssueTags: ,
Posted inPublic Special Issue

Abortion and a Woman’s Home

R (on the application of Christian Concern) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2020] EWCA 1546 (Admin)  The High Court refused the Appellant permission to bring a judicial review against the decision of the Secretary of State to approve ‘the home of a woman’ as being a…
July 1, 2020Posted inPublic, Special IssueTags:
Posted inProcedural Special Issue

Fairness of a Remote Hearing

SC v University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWHC 1445 (QB)  This article originally appeared in a Covid-19 Special Issue (July 2020). The facts  The Defendant Trust applied a week before a clinical negligence trial for its adjournment on the basis that it would be unfair to hold the…
July 1, 2020Posted inProcedural, Special IssueTags: , ,
Posted inInquiries Special Issue

The Civil Justice Council Rapid Review

Civil Justice Council Report on the Impact of COVID-19 on Civil Court Users Published The Review  The Civil Justice Council was requested by the Master of the Rolls (Sir Terence Etherton) to conduct a rapid review between 1 and 15 May 2020 on the impact of COVID-19 on the civil…
July 1, 2020Posted inInquiries, Special IssueTags:
Posted inInquiries Special Issue

Being BAME is a Major Risk Factor for Dying of Covid-19 – What Can Be Done About It?

Introduction  This article originally appeared in a Covid-19 Special Issue (July 2020). The Public Health England (“PHE”) review into the disparities in risks and outcomes of COVID deaths was published on 3 June 2020. It was intended to address increasing concerns, notably voiced by the British Medical Association, about the…
July 1, 2020Posted inInquiries, Special IssueTags: