Coronial investigation of the Police after suicide – Coroner’s decisions on Article 2 and jury overturned – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted July 25th, 2025 in news by sally

‘R (Ferguson) v HM Assistant Coroner for Sefton, Knowlsey and St Helens [2025] EWHC 1901 (Admin) concerned a challenge by the next of kin of Joseph Farley, who died after jumping from the fourteenth floor of a carpark. The Coroner conducting mr Farley’s inquest has determined that Article 2, ECHR, did not apply and that the inquest could be heard without a jury. Mr Ferguson challenged both of these decisions by way of judicial review.’

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UK Human Rights Blog, 25th July 2025

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