Matthew Hill, Author at The QMLR Archive

About Matthew Hill

Matthew Hill (Call: 2009) practises in public law, medical law and inquiries and inquests. He has acted as First Junior Counsel to the Hillsborough Inquests, and is currently instructed as Lead Junior Counsel to the Infected Blood Inquiry and the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.

Inquests Issue 10

Is an Expert Report Prepared for the Purposes of an Inquest covered by Litigation Privilege?

In the matter of an application for Judicial Review by Linda Kercher and Carol Mitchell [2020] NICA 31; [2020] Inquest L.R. 76 NB The judgment was handed down in June 2020, but has only recently been made available online. A niche question, but an important one for those in the…

By Matthew Hill January 24, 2022Inquests, Issue 10Experts

Inquests Issue 7

Article 2 and Police Failings

R (Peter Skelton and anr) v Senior Coroner for West Sussex [2020] EWHC 2813 (Admin) Susan Nicholson and Caroline Devlin were killed by the same man during the course of abusive relationships. They died in 2011 and 2006, but the man was not convicted – of murder and manslaughter respectively…

By Matthew Hill March 8, 2021Inquests, Issue 7Article 2, operational duty