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![The Thompson Inquest [2025] UKSC 47](https://trustsbarrister.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/img_0637.jpg?w=695)
The Thompson Inquest [2025] UKSC 47
Read more: The Thompson Inquest [2025] UKSC 47Where 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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Ferguson, R v. HM Assistant Coroner [2025] EWHC 1901
Read more: Ferguson, R v. HM Assistant Coroner [2025] EWHC 1901On 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…
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Dove v. HM Assistant Coroner [2023] EWCA Civ 289
Read more: Dove v. HM Assistant Coroner [2023] EWCA Civ 289In a case of suicide it is open to a Coroner to ‘consider whether there was any factual connection or link between the withdrawal of benefits and the deterioration in… mental health in the period immediately before… death’, and the case ‘bears similarities with Davison ([2022] EWHC 2342), where the fresh evidence raised issues of…