Posted inInquests Issue 14

Schrödinger’s Defendants: Inquests, Unlawful Killing and Criminal Acquittals

Schrödinger’s Defendants: Inquests, Unlawful Killing and Criminal Acquittals Matthew Hill R (Leeson) v HM Area Coroner for Manchester South [2023] EWHC 62 (Admin)  R (Makki) v HMSC for S. Manchester [2023] EWHC 80 (Admin) The Inquests into the Shoreham air crash The coronial and criminal jurisdictions have a long and…
September 18, 2023Posted inInquests, Issue 14
Posted inInquests 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…
January 24, 2022Posted inInquests, Issue 10Tags:
Posted inInquests 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…
March 8, 2021Posted inInquests, Issue 7Tags: ,