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Ferguson, R v. HM Assistant Coroner [2025] EWHC 1901

On judicial review the Coroner’s decisions that (i) the enhanced investigative duty under Article 2 ECHR was not engaged, and (ii) the inquest would be heard without a jury, were quashed where ‘the evidence, primarily in the Chief Constable’s own PSD report, revealed a series of acts or omissions by the officers which could have played a part in… [the] death’: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/2025/1901