10/11/2024 12:53:34 PM An update on the law of infanticide: a review of cases over the past 20 years by the Cambridge Pro-Bono Project By Karlia Lykourgou Last year I wrote an article highlighting a number of high-profile prosecutions pursued against women for causing the death of a foetus...
8/14/2023 12:47:59 PM Coronial powers and the rights of the unborn (Part 2) By Maya Sikand KC Tom Stoate Ruby Peacock In this two-part article, Maya Sikand KC, Tom Stoate and Ruby Peacock, explore two difficult questions arising from the inquest into the...
8/11/2023 1:43:46 PM Coronial powers and the rights of the unborn (Part 1) By Maya Sikand KC Tom Stoate Ruby Peacock In this two-part article, Maya Sikand KC, Tom Stoate, and Ruby Peacock, explore two difficult questions arising from the inquest into the...
10/5/2021 11:47:30 AM Why the Everard Inquiry must look far beyond Wayne Couzens By Harriet Johnson 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...
9/28/2021 7:53:24 AM The long reach of the ECHR: Carter v Russia (20914/07), 21 September 2021 By Maya Sikand KC Adam Straw KC This was a successful claim against Russia regarding the killing of Alexander Litvinenko brought by his wife, Marina Litvinenko aka Maria...
8/16/2021 12:22:50 PM Police putting guns into the wrong hands, again: Firearms Licencing Policy once again in the dock By Alison Gerry 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...
8/2/2021 12:00:24 PM The COVID-19 Inquiry: Some potential issues - Structure of a public inquiry By Amelia Nice This series of short articles reflects on some matters that may arise in relation to a public inquiry (or inquiries) into the...
7/1/2021 9:59:28 AM The COVID-19 Inquiry: Some potential issues - Scope and terms of reference By Amelia Nice This series of short articles reflects on some matters that may arise in relation to a public inquiry (or inquiries) into the...
6/14/2020 12:00:00 AM Deaths of vulnerable persons in the community after Maguire: when is Article 2 engaged? By Stephen Cragg KC Frederick Powell This article analyses the recent Court of Appeal case of R (Maguire) v HM Senior Coroner for Blackpool & Fylde [2020] 6 WLUK 90, [2019]...
4/28/2020 12:00:00 AM Covid-19 deaths and Inquests By Theo Huckle KC Theo Huckle QC updates on current advice from the Chief Coroner, HHJ Lucraft... An Inquest is not a foregone conclusion, since death by...