11 Oct, 2024 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...
14 Aug, 2023 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...
11 Aug, 2023 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...
05 Oct, 2021 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...
28 Sep, 2021 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...
16 Aug, 2021 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...
02 Aug, 2021 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...
01 Jul, 2021 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...
14 Jun, 2020 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]...
28 Apr, 2020 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...