Doctors demand formal inquest for Dr David Kelly – BBC News
“Six doctors are taking legal action to demand a formal inquest into the death of government scientist Dr David Kelly.”
BBC News, 5th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: inquests
‘Friendly fire’ court case halted – BBC News
“Lawyers for a widow whose husband was killed in a ‘friendly fire’ incident in Iraq have halted a legal challenge against the Ministry of Defence (MoD).”
BBC News, 2nd December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Disabled man killed by bed hoist – BBC News
“A disabled man choked to death after becoming trapped in a mechanical hoist which failed as he was using it to get into bed, an inquest has heard.”
BBC News, 30th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Labour forces secret inquests Bill through the Commons – The Independent
“Secret inquests which will bar bereaved families and the public from attending hearings into controversial deaths were forced through Parliament last night.”
The Independent, 10th November 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Inquests into the deaths of service personnel in operations and exercises overseas – Ministry of Justice
“Justice Minister Bridget Prentice has made a written ministerial statement about the deaths of servicemen and women overseas.”
Ministry of Justice, 27th October 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Labour defeated twice in Lords – BBC News
“Labour has been defeated twice in the House of Lords in votes over the issues of provocation in murder cases and the handling of military inquests.”
BBC News, 26th October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Government defeated over military inquest coroners – The Independent
“The Government was defeated in the Lords tonight as peers voted to give a Deputy Chief Coroner the role of specialising in military inquests.”
The Independent, 26th October 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Criticism over meningitis death – BBC News
“A hospital has been criticised by a coroner for failing to spot that a 10-year-old boy, who later died from meningitis, was gravely ill.”
BBC News, 23rd October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Outrage at government plan for secret inquests – The Independent
“Plans to introduce secret inquiries into controversial deaths from which the public and bereaved families could be banned are to be pushed through the House of Commons by the Government.”
The Independent, 22nd October 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Drug overdose ‘was manslaughter’ – BBC News
“A jury has returned an inquest verdict of ‘manslaughter by gross neglect’ on a woman killed by a chemotherapy dose four times too high.”
BBC News, 25th September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘I just want the truth’ – BBC News
“In April 2005 an unarmed man was shot dead by police as he sat in the back of a car in north London. Four years later Azelle Rodney’s mother is still waiting for an inquest to be held.”
BBC News, 25th September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Coroner condemns Rye Hill jail where prisoner on suicide watch bled to death – The Guardian
“A coroner today (23 September) condemned ‘appalling and unacceptable conditions’ at a privately-run prison where an inmate on suicide watch was allowed to bleed to death. Aleksey Baranovsky, 33, a Ukrainian national, died in a blood-covered cell at HMP Rye Hill, Warwickshire, in June 2006.”
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The Guardian, 23rd September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Father wins Iraq inquest review – BBC News
“The father of a soldier killed in Iraq has won permission to challenge a coroner’s decision not to hold a full investigation into his son’s death.”
BBC News, 22nd July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Doctors demand inquest into death of Dr David Kelly – Daily Telegraph
“A group of 13 doctors who believe that Dr David Kelly, the Government scientist, did not commit suicide, but was murdered, are launching a legal campaign to demand an inquest.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Blast soldier unlawfully killed – BBC News
“A Devon Territorial Army soldier who died when his vehicle hit a landmine in Afghanistan was unlawfully killed, an inquest has ruled.”
BBC News, 8th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
R (Allen) v Inner North London Coroner – WLR Daily
R (Allen) v Inner North London Coroner [2009] EWCA Civ 623; [2009] WLR (D) 219
“An inquest into the death of a patient who was detained in a hospital under s 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983 had to satisfy the enhanced requirements of art 2 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms which guaranteed the right to life.”
WLR Daily, 1st July 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Grandmother cleared over baby killed by dogs – The Guardian
“Coroner records verdict of accidental death in case of three-month-old Joseph Mack, mauled while grandmother slept.”
The Guardian, 25th June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Who decides who owns your body? – BBC News
“Steve Blum’s son Christopher was buried last November but he did not go to the funeral.
Mr Blum, who has always disputed the the pathologists’ finding of cot death as the cause of four-month-old Christopher’s death, wanted his son to remain in the North London mortuary where he had lain for 21 years until he could have the inquest he feels his son deserves.”
BBC News, 23rd June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Does the Coroners and Justice Bill go far enough – and is there enough money – Law Society’s Gazette
“The Coroners and Justice Bill is the government’s attempt to implement that long-awaited reform. Some practitioners and pressure groups are concerned that the bill doesn’t go far enough, and that there isn’t enough money behind it to make it work. There is a real risk, they say, that this bill will come to be seen as a missed opportunity.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 18th June 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
