suicide Archives - The QMLR Archive

Risk assessment, the HTT and bed availability: causation in a tragic mental-health claim

Risk assessment, the HTT and bed availability: causation in a tragic mental-health claim Robert Mills Ridge v Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust [2026] EWHC 898 (KB) In a judgment handed down on 17 April 2026, Edmund Burge KC (sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court) dismissed a…

By Robert Mills May 19, 2026Clinical Negligence, Issue 16Breach of duty, Causation, suicide

Inquests Issue 16

Suicide and the inference of intent

Suicide and the inference of intent Rory Badenoch Toogood v HM Senior Coroner for the Area of Somerset [2026] EWHC 634 (Admin) Introduction In this case the Divisional Court set out useful guidance on the legal framework for determining / inferring suicidal intent in circumstances in which there is no…

By Rory Badenoch April 28, 2026Inquests, Issue 16suicide

Inquests Issue 8

Maughan: Suicide and Unlawful Killing Conclusions in Inquests

R (Maughan) v Her Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2020] UKSC 46 The Supreme Court has now issued its judgment in this important case for Coroners and inquests dealing with the standard of proof to be applied where the death might have been caused by suicide or unlawful killing. Everyone who…

By Owain Thomas KC April 15, 2021Inquests, Issue 8standard of proof, suicide

Inquests Issue 1

The Standard of Proof in Inquests Concerning Suicide

R (on the application of Maughan) v Her Majesty's Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2019] EWCA Civ 809 This article originally appeared in Issue 1 (May 2019). In this judgment, handed down on 10 May 2019, the Court of Appeal considered the standard of proof to be applied by a coroner…

By Rajkiran Arhestey May 1, 2019Inquests, Issue 1standard of proof, suicide

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