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Two recent legal developments raise the prospect of more extensive consideration of social media user data in inquests, particularly...
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This month, in Zayets v Ukraine, a Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights confirmed that Article 2 ECHR obligations may arise in...
In January 2025, the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced a plan to fund work on five inquiries to explore allegations into failures by...
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Last year I wrote an article highlighting a number of high-profile prosecutions pursued against women for causing the death of a foetus...
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In this two-part article, Maya Sikand KC, Tom Stoate and Ruby Peacock, explore two difficult questions arising from the inquest into the...
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In this two-part article, Maya Sikand KC, Tom Stoate, and Ruby Peacock, explore two difficult questions arising from the inquest into the...
When DCI Simon Harding said that police officers viewed Wayne Couzens not as a police officer who was a murderer but as “a murderer who...
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This was a successful claim against Russia regarding the killing of Alexander Litvinenko brought by his wife, Marina Litvinenko aka Maria...
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The shocking and tragic deaths of 5 people shot by a man with a gun he was licenced to hold by the police is revealing a chillingly...
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This series of short articles reflects on some matters that may arise in relation to a public inquiry (or inquiries) into the...
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This series of short articles reflects on some matters that may arise in relation to a public inquiry (or inquiries) into the...
This article analyses the recent Court of Appeal case of R (Maguire) v HM Senior Coroner for Blackpool & Fylde [2020] 6 WLUK 90, [2019]...