Coroner key cases

2021

R (Wandsworth) v HM Senior Coroner for Inner West London [2021] EWHC 801 (Admin)
R (Morahan) v HM Coroner for West London [2021] EWHC 1603 (Admin)
In the matter of the Inquest into the death of Michael Richard Vaughan [2020] EWHC 3670 (Admin)
Farrell v Senior Coroner North East Hampshire [2021] EWHC 778 (Admin)
Dove v HM Assistant Coroner for Teesside and Hartlepool [2021] EWHC 2511 (Admin)

R (Lewis) v Senior Coroner for North West Kent [2020] EWHC
R (Carole Smith) v HM Assistant Coroner for North West Wales [2020] EWHC 781 (Admin)
R (Winterflood) v HM Coroner for Plymouth, Torbay & South Devon CO/292/2020
R (Maguire) v HM Senior Coroner for Blackpool & Fylde [2020] EWCA Civ 738
R (Skelton) v Senior Coroner for West Sussex [2020] EWHC 2813 (Admin)
Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police v (1) Dyer (2) HM Assistant Coroner West Yorkshire (Western) [2020] EWCA Civ 1375
R (Maughan) v HM Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2020] UKSC 46
R (Grice) v HM Senior Coroner for Brighton [2020] EWHC 3581 (Admin)

Parkinson – [2018] EWHC 1501 (Admin)
Worthington – [2018] EWHC 3386 (Admin)
Maguire and United Response – [2019] EWHC 1232 (Admin)
Jones – [2019] EWHC 1494 (Admin)
Chidlow, R (On the Application Of) v HM Senior Coroner for Blackpool and Fylde [2019] EWHC 581
AB v Assistant Coroner for Inner South London – CO/663/2019
R (Lee) v HM Assistant Coroner for Sunderland [2019] EWHC 3227 (Admin)

R (Adath Yisroel Burial Society & Anor) v HM Senior Coroner for Inner North London [2018] EWHC 969 (Admin)
R (Adath Yisroel Burial Society & Anor) v HM Senior Coroner for Inner North London [2018] EWHC 969 (Admin) – judgment on costs
Ruling on prioritisation of investigations into death and decisions on release of bodies
R (Maguire) v Assistant Coroner West Yorkshire [2018] EWCA Civ 6
Court of Appeal case on which witnesses to call

Silvera, R (on the application of) v HM Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2017] EWHC 2499 (Admin)
Resuming an inquest after a criminal conviction; Article 2; informal patients and the investigatory obligation.
Mueller v Her Majesty’s Area Coroner for Manchester West [2017] EWHC 3000 (Admin)
Ruling on what is to be read into the record of inquest.
Inquest into the death of Private Sean Benton
Ruling upon whether a jury should be summoned under s.7(3) Coroners and Justice Act 2009.

R (Tainton) v HM Senior Coroner for Preston and West Lancashire [2016] EWHC 1396 (Admin)
Article 2 inquest, whether admitted failings on behalf of the State to diagnose illness earlier ought to be included in the Record of Inquest even where not causative of the death.
R (Hamilton-Jackson) v Assistant Coroner for Mid Kent and Medway [2016] EWHC 1796 (Admin)
Self-inflicted death in custody, Article 2 inquest, whether jury misdirected; use of plain language encouraged.
Tyrrell v HM Senior Coroner County Durham and Darlington [2016] EWHC 1892 (Admin)
Death in custody from natural causes, whether Article 2 is engaged.

Flower -v- HM Coroner for The County of Devon, Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon [2015] EWHC 3666 (Admin)
Coroner not functus officio following suspended and not resumed investigation.
R (Fullick) -v- HM Senior Coroner for Inner North London [2015] EWHC 3522 (Admin)
Death resulting from possible omission of a police officer, whether mandatory to sit with a jury.
R (LF) -v- HM Senior Coroner for Inner South London [2015] EWHC 2990 (Admin)
Deprivation of liberty, whether death in intensive care is in ‘state detention’.
R (Rotsztein) -v- HM Senior Coroner for Inner London [2015] EWHC 2764 (Admin)
Post-mortem and freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
HM Senior Coroner for Cumbria -v- Ian Smith, HM Former Senior Coroner for South and East Cumbria [2015] EWHC 2465 (Admin)
Parallel family proceedings, restrictions on publication.
Shafi -v- HM Coroner for East London [2015] EWHC 2106 (Admin)
Death in custody abroad, attendance of witnesses, whether mandatory to sit with a jury.
R (Al-Saadoon) -v- Secretary of State for Defence [2015] EWHC 715 (Admin)
State’s investigatory duty, whether investigatory obligation arises where no arguable substantive breach of Art 2 and 3 of ECHR.
R (Letts) -v- Lord Chancellor [2015] EWHC 402 (Admin)
Legal aid, exceptional funding, Article 2 ECHR.
Chambers -v- HM Coroner for Preston and West Lancashire [2015] EWHC 31 (Admin)
Suicide in prison, whether independent psychiatric evidence necessary.

R (Duggan) -v- HM Assistant Deputy Coroner for the Northern District of Greater London [2014] EWHC 3343 (Admin)
Lawful killing, self-defence.
R (Goldstein) -v- HM Coroner for Inner London District [2014] EWHC 3889 (Admin)
Post-mortem and freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
R (Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) -v- HM Coroner for the City of Liverpool [2014] EWHC 1586 (Admin)
Schedule 5 notice to produce evidence
R (Cooper) -v- HM Coroner for North East Kent [2014] EWHC 586 (Admin)
Challenge to interlocutory rulings, giving reasons for decisions

R (Antoniou) -v- Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust [2013] EWHC 3055 (Admin)
State’s obligation to investigate death of a patient detained under mental health legislation.
Worcestershire County Council -v- HM Coroner for the County of Worcestershire [2013] EWHC 1711 (QB)
Disclosure of documents, public interest immunity.