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A London NHS Trust v. DT [2025] EWCOP 36

Prior to the diagnosis of death through the 2025 Code [of Practice for the Diagnosis and Confirmation of Death] the individual concerned Is not dead as a matter of law – MCA 2005 applies and consequently in the absence of agreement for brain stem testing to be carried out, or the arrangements for them, an application…
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Anaesthetists Utd, R v. GMC [2025] EWHC 2270

While Physician Associates (PAs) and Anaesthesia Associates (AAs) are currently only advised ‘to say that they are not medically qualified if they are engaged in a task or function that a patient might reasonably expect a doctor to perform’, and despite there being ‘ample evidence that patients and the wider public do not know or…
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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…
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Charles Cooper | Barrister