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The Thompson Inquest [2025] UKSC 47

Where evidence was subject to a Public Interest Immunity certificate, ‘the assessment of the Minister and of the Secretary of State regarding the nature and extent of damage to national security should have been accepted by the Coroner unless there was no evidence to support that assessment or the assessment was Wednesbury irrational’ and prior…
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Stockport Met BC v. EKK [2025] EWCOP 42

Distinguishing the decision of the Supreme Court in A Local Authority v. JB [2021] UKSC 52 as to capacity to engage in sexual relations, the Court finds: ‘The approach set out in Sheffield [City Council v. E [2004] EWHC 2808, pre MCA 2005] and developed thereafter enables the right balance between the protection of the incapacitous and a restriction on…
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Shaheen & Anor v. Daish [2025] EWHC 3056 (KB)

The Court finds that the GP defendant ‘…failed to tell/inform the deceased that a chest x-ray was required and that he needed to attend the local walk-in radiology department in order for the chest x-ray to be carried out’ where, despite evidence in person to the contrary, ‘There is no record in the appointment note…
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Charles Cooper | Barrister